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

[Qihua Wang <qihua wang alcatel com>]

Hi Mark,
I still have a problem to see the icon appears on the panel.

As user of myself, I did the following.

%gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/objects/00000004/object_type launcher-object

%gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/objects/00000004/launcher_location 
applications:///netscape.desktop

%gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/objects/00000004/panel_id 00000002

%gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/objects/00000004/position 100

%gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/objects/00000004/panel_stick false


As you suggested, I added new object to list.
%gconftool-2 --type list --set /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/general/object_id_list --list-type string 
"[00000001,00000002,00000003,00000004]"

I verified that the object 00000004 has been created. But under the general directory, %gconf.xml file didn't have entry for 
the 00000004 object under object_id_list entry.( I am not sure it is a must or not, at least gconftool-2 didn't update it)

I did not see the icon on the top panel. I loged out and login again, I didn't see.
What could be missing.

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I also noticed that in my $HOME/.gconf/apps/panel/default_profiles, there is profiles directory as well. Looks like the panel 
takes the profile directory as its preference setting not the default_profiles.

Then I did the same thing to set to profiles as follow.

%gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/panel/profiles/default/objects/00000004/object_type launcher-object

%gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/panel/profiles/default/objects/00000004/launcher_location %applications:///netscape.desktop

%gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/panel/profiles/default/objects/00000004/panel_id 00000002

%gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/profiles/default/objects/00000004/position 100

%gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/panel/profiles/default/objects/00000004/panel_stick false

%gconftool-2 --type list --set /apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/general/object_id_list --list-type string 
"[00000001,00000002,00000003,00000004]"

Still I saw nothing.
Any thoughts?

Thanks for your help!

-Qihua


Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 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.


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