Re: Using gconftool-2 tool to add icons on menu panel for the users

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 18:51, Qihua Wang wrote:
> I try to using gconftool-2 to add extra icons on the top menu panel.
> 
> As a super user, I did the following.
> 
> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --owner=panel --type string --set 
> /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/applets/00000002/object_type bonobo-applet
> 
> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --owner=panel --type string --set 
> /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/applets/00000002/panel_id 00000002
> 
> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --owner=panel --type int --set 
> /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/applets/00000002/position 50
> 
> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --owner=panel --type string --set 
> /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/applets/00000002/bonobo_iid OAFIID:GNOME_TasklistApplet
> 
> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --owner=panel --type bool --set 
> /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/applets/00000002/panel_right_stick false
> 
> It created the %gconf.xml under /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/applets/00000002
> directory.
> 
> But I didn't see the icon on the panel.

	Have you read http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.0/ ?

	What you are doing is setting up an applet in the defaults database -
this means that you're setting things up so that when a new user logs in
for the first time they'll see this applet. Users with existing panel
configuration won't see the applet.

	If you drop the --config-source and --direct you'll be setting the
values on your own configuration which sounds like what you want. You
can also drop --owner-panel, its meaningless.

	I think the final thing you'd need to do to make it work is append
"00000002" to applet_id_list. Something like:

$> gconftool-2 -s /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/general/applet_id_list -t list --list-type string "[(existing list here),00000002]"

Cheers,
Mark.