Re: Solution for OEMs/Gnome

[Frederic Ruaudel <ruaudel embl-grenoble fr>]

Hi Daniel,

  I'm not sure it is exactly what you are looking for, but maybe these 
3 articles from redhat magazine can help you. It deals with integration 
of programs on the Gnome desktop (managing menu integration, add icon on 
desktop, managing mime type and so on...)

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/015jan06/features/desktop/

these two are more "developer-oriented" :

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/freedesktop/
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/013nov05/features/freedesktop/

Hope it will help :)

Best Regards,

Fred

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Stanislav Brabec wrote:
>
> > They are: /apps/panel/default_setup/applets and /apps/panel/applets.
>
>
> I see it. I also see /apps/panel/default_setup/objects. But I don't 
> see a way to change what's there. Adding an icon means adding a new 
> object and I can't see a way to do that from gconf-editor. Also, if I 
> add an icon to my panel, it won't show up on Gconf.
>
> Gconf seems like an incredibly complicated way of adding an icon. And 
> it doesn't seem to work at all. There is no connection between what I 
> see on gconf-editor and the icons I see on my desktop.
>
>
> > As I wrote before, this file is really hard to understand and there is
> > no GUI for it (at least jus now). But at least here in SuSE we were able
> > to change the default panel by editing
> > $sysconfdir/gconf/schemas/panel-default-setup.entries.
>
>
> Indeed, this file is not clear at all. And it looks unduly complicated 
> for just a panel. I don't think I'll fiddle with it, I'll probably 
> break it.
>
> > You can take a help from user account with properly reconfigured panel.
>
>
> Except that I don't understand the contents of ~/.gconf
>
> It seems easier to just cp ~/.gconf ~/.gnome2 /etc/skel/
>
> > - Edit .schemas or .entries in installed environment and use gconftool
> > after setup.
>
>
> If you are talking about .../gconf/schemas/panel-default-setup.entries 
> then I have no idea how to edit it.
>
> > - Use gconf-editor as root and set values.
>
>
> Doesn't give me the option to add an icon.
>
> > - Change GConf path and use custom .schemas or .entries and use
> > gconftool after setup.
>
>
> Still don't know how to edit .entries or .schemas. Like you said, they 
> aren't exactly straight forward.
>
> > - Change GConf path and use separate GConf database
>
>
> No use unless I can generate a separate GConf database.
>
> > But as I wrote before, for panel all these ways are very unintuitive.
>
>
> You could say that :)
>
> > > How do I do that though? I don't want to login to X as root, and 
> > > gconf-editor doesn't seem to give me any options for adding an icon 
> > > to the panel.
> >
> >
> > gnomesu gconf-editor
>
>
> gconf-editor doesn't have any method for adding a new icon. All it can 
> do is change values of existing icons. And even that is doubtful 
> because it is showing some icons which are nowhere on my panel.
>
> Best,
> Daniel.