Re: Gnome is a problem for OEMs

[Daniel Carrera <daniel carrera zmsl com>]

Hello Andrew,

> I am glad to learn that you want to support Linux on the PCs that you sell.

:)

> Sabayon is one piece of software that is designed to do the 
> configuration you want on a single PC.

I'll try anything. I do want this to work. I downloaded Sabayon but I 
couldn't compile it. The configure step fails with:

checking for XLIB_MODULE... configure: error: Package requirements 
(gdk-x11-2.0 pygobject-2.0) were not met.

But even if I *could* compile it, I wouldn't want to install a full 
development environment on a computer intended for an end-user. I guess 
I could remove all the -dev packages afterwards, but if I have to do all 
this on every PC the labour cost per PC will go out the roof.

> If you want a more command-line 
> oriented approach, you could try googling for one of the following:

I like command-line approaches. They're easier to automate or do remotely.

> "gnome administrators guide"
> "gnome customize panel administrator"
>
> Or a selection of other keywords that all end up at 
> http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.6/

Will do. Thank you for the info.

> Hopefully that admin guide will contain some of the information you're 
> looking for.

Will do.

> If not, please feel free to ask around some more. Oh, and 
> point out which bits you want to customise and can't - if we know where 
> the weaknesses are, it makes it easier to add the functionality in 
> future releases.

Right now I just want to add an OpenOffice.org icon and a Skype icon, 
and edit a menu entry. I can't say what else I'll need, this is a test 
machine I'm working on (for a customer who will let us experiment on him).

I installed a new version of OpenOffice.org because the one that comes 
with Ubuntu Breezy is buggy. I'd like to add an icon from the panel and 
ideally a menu entry too. (I can do without the menu entry, but I can't 
tell the user to use the command line or to update the panel himself).

Best,
Daniel.
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