Re: Solution for OEMs/Gnome

[Daniel Carrera <daniel carrera zmsl com>]

I'd just like to say that Shaun's description is right on the mark. I 
couldn't have summarized the state of Gconf and Sabayon so well.

Best,
Daniel.

Shaun McCance wrote:
> I see that you've already found Sabayon to be a good
> solution, but just for information's sake:
>
> Using gconf-editor is a reasonably good way to create
> default and mandatory settings for simple configuration
> options.  For example, if you want to set whether the
> trash icon is visible on users' desktops, you would
> open the Defaults window and toggle the checkbox for
> /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible.
>
> So everybody around here gets really proud of how easy
> this is, and they run around screaming about how easy
> it is to set defaults for everything with GConf.  The
> problem is that the panel uses a fairly complex layout
> of dynamically-created keys and directories of keys.
>
> gconf-editor will allow you to create new keys, but it
> can't create new directories of keys.  (Not because of
> any technical limitation; it's really just a design
> oversight. [1])  So gconf-editor just isn't powerful
> enough.  Even if it were, figuring out the panel's
> complex dynamic key layout to make the changes isn't
> a trivial task.
>
> For things like the panel layout, mucking around with
> the actual keys just isn't going to be fun, whether
> you use gconf-editor, gconftool-2, or emacs.  In this
> particular case, the keys themselves are too confusing
> for mortals.  And that's why Sabayon is so great: you
> get to set the default settings the same way you'd set
> up your own desktop.
>
> ----
> [1] Technically directories don't really exist.  The
> key paths are more like namespaces, so it just doesn't
> make sense in GConf to have "directories" without keys.
> But that shouldn't stop gconf-editor from being able to
> create new keys with new paths/namespaces.
>
> --
> Shaun
>
>
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