Re: [Evolution] Automatic Evolution Setup

[Brett Anderson <brett cs jhu edu>]

Murray,

Thanks for the quick response! Is there something that gconftool does
that is different than copying the %gconf files over by hand?

For example, wouldn't a
~/.gconf/apps/evolution/shell/view_defaults/folder_bar/%gconf.xml
that looks like the following...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
        <entry name="width" mtime="1107791890" type="int" value="200">
        </entry>
</gconf>

...do the same thing as

gconftool-2 --type=bool --
set /apps/evolution/shell/view_defaults/show_folder_bar "true"

I am actually looking for the bare minimum settings that I would need to
keep evolution from opening up the setup assistant. I just want to put
in the users' email address, real name, and mail server info.

I noticed that the ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml contains all
of this information. gconftool-1 -g /apps/evolution/mail/accounts gives
me that information from that file. However, when I have this in place,
evolution doesn't use it. It instead prompts the user for new values in
the evolution setup assistant.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brett

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 23:20 +0800, Murray Trainer wrote:
> Brett Anderson wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to generate ~/.gconf/apps/evolution and ~/.evolution files
> > from a template so that users will not have to configure evolution
> > themselves using the Evolution Setup Assistant. I am doing the
> > following:
> >
> > Removing .evolution and .gconf/apps/evolution for a user
> >
> > Going through the Evolution Setup Assistant, and letting it recreate
> > those files.
> >
> > I then copy these files into other user's home directories, changing
> > things such as email address, real name, and paths that reference the
> > user's home directory.
> >
> > I have been copying everything except the .db files in ~/.evolution.
> > I have made sure that the files have proper permissions and ownership by
> > the users that they are being used by.
> >
> > When the user starts up evolution it opens up the Evolution Setup
> > Assistant and overwrites the %gconf.xml files that I put in place for
> > them. (e.g. ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml) 
> >
> > Is there something else I need to be copying? Is there anything special
> > I need to do to get this to work that I am missing? What is evolution
> > seeing(or not seeing) that makes it run the Evolution Setup Assistant
> > and regenerate the config file?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brett  
> >  
> Hi Brett,
>
> You need to use gconftool2 as shown in my script at the bottom.   The 
> account stuff will be a bit messy when I get around to it - might have 
> to use sed to replace strings as shown here:  
>
> http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/118 
>
> Let me know if you get the account stuff working especially the 
> encrypted passwords.  You could have a generic Evolution setup in 
> /etc/skel and then the script could be run from a global directory in 
> their login script.  I am going to run it after creating a new user in 
> Webmin to set their Evolution defaults using "su -c $GCONF_SCRIPT'  
> $NEWUSER"    
>
> Murray
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Configure general GNOME settings for a new user
> #
> # Set Firefox as hander for HTTP and HTTPS URL's
> gconftool-2 --type=string --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command 
> "/usr/bin/firefox %s" 
> gconftool-2 --type=string --set 
> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command "/usr/bin/firefox %s" 
> # Set Evolution as hander for MAILTO URL's
> gconftool-2 --type=string --set 
> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command "/opt/gnome/bin/evolution %s"
> #
> # Configure Evolution settings for new user
> #
> # Show folder bar
> gconftool-2 --type=bool --set 
> /apps/evolution/shell/view_defaults/show_folder_bar "true"
> # Make fonts larger
> gconftool-2 --type=bool --set 
> /apps/evolution/mail/display/fonts/use_custom "true"
> gconftool-2 --type=string --set 
> /apps/evolution/mail/display/fonts/monospace "Monospace 14"
> gconftool-2 --type=string --set 
> /apps/evolution/mail/display/fonts/variable "Sans 14"
> # Composer View - add CC and BCC
> gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /apps/evolution/mail/composer/view/Cc "true"
> gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /apps/evolution/mail/composer/view/Bcc "true"
> # Timezone - default to Australia/Perth - should pick this up from TZ 
> variable
> gconftool-2 --type=string --set 
> /apps/evolution/calendar/display/timezone "Australia/Perth"