Re: Software installation using gnome

[Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com>]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 15:08 +0000, Chris Vaughan wrote:
> Thanks, I already know how to create a desktop icon.  What I want is a
> default template of sorts so that when a new user is created a set of
> icons appear automatically.  I guess I could create a startup script
> that would parse /home/users to determine if a new user has been
> created and then write the icons to the desktop.  
> 
> That seams a little excessive though and I'm assuming there is
> something already available in Gnome that does it.  If not it would be
> nice if you could add it!  It would make life for software developers
> easier to create a polished install for Linux. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 

You can create a Desktop folder in /etc/skel and put your desktop icons
there.

Jon

> On 1/3/07, Adam Schreiber <sadam clemson edu> wrote:
>         On 1/3/07, Chris Vaughan <supercomputer gmail com> wrote:
>         > What I am trying to do is create an installer for a software
>         tool I have
>         > been developing.  I would like something that sounds
>         relatively simple to 
>         > happen.  For every user that is created on the system i
>         would like 2 icons
>         > which are shortcuts to the application to appear on their
>         desktop.  So if a
>         > new user is created he gets 2 default icons every time. 
>         >
>         > Does anyone know of a clean and easy way to do this?
>         
>         In GNOME, "icons" or launchers on the desktop are
>         simply .desktop
>         files placed in the ~/Desktop directory.  Drag an item out of
>         the 
>         applications menu to see the format of the file or look at
>         freedesktop.org.
>         
>         Adam
> 
> 
> 
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