Re: Software installation using gnome



On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 10:21 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 15:37 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> > "/etc/skel" does not allow for propagation of change after a user
> > profile has been created, and "cp" sounds really primitive for "The
> > Desktop"
> > 
> > On windows admins can use "All Users" profile for desktop settings.
> > Yay !
> > 
> > gconf settings and menu can be set globally, but desktop icons cannot.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331460
> > 
> > panel launcher, again the same "bug" .
> 
> I consider this a good thing.  Random applications can add themselves to
> the global applications menu, but the panel launchers are chosen *by me*
> and I don't have any launchers on my desktop.

a typical example of my audience : 

a company deploying in-house applications across a already installed
linux base. Rather than making changes across all home directory, it
would be easier to make change on one "/config" nfs mounted folder .

ps : gconf supports user configurable path for all home sick admin.

> Freshly installed applications should go into the applications menus,
> and nowhere else.
> 
> Ross
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