Re: Solution for OEMs/Gnome

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 17:31 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Elijah Newren wrote:
> > Daniel,
> > 
> > Thanks for all your patience.  I see from another email that sabayon
> > has worked for you, which is great.  That makes your whole below email
> > sounds like perfect marketing material for sabayon now.  :-)  Please
> > keep letting us know where any other warts are so we can fix them up
> > if they haven't been already.
> 
> Heh, sure. And I /would/ recommend sabayon to other OEMs. I'd just make 
> sure to tell them two things:
> 
> * sudo aptitude install sabayon
> * Click on User and then "Use this profile for all users".
> 
> That's enough to make it work for new (future) users, and it doesn't 
> prevent the user from changing the configuration afterwards. This is 
> important for the Ubuntu OEM installation, and it's not obvious, so I 
> tested it.

It should be enough to work for ALL users, current and future.
GConf looks up settings from multiple sources.  Typically, it
has three sources: system-wide mandatory, user settings, and
system-wide default.

Sabayon should be setting the system-wide default settings.
If a user has not explicitly changed a setting, it will be
retrieved from the defaults.  So changing the defaults will
affect all current users who have not explicitly opted out
of being affected.

But then, the panel uses a very complex key layout, which
might create oddities with how the defaults work.

--
Shaun