Re: Gnome 2.2 /RHEL 3 Default Panel Question

[Matthew Walburn <matt math mit edu>]

On Dec 10, 2003, at 2:59 PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:46, Matthew Walburn wrote:
> > Hi there, I was wondering if anyone here could point me to some
> > documentation or a howto on how to add the Terminal launcher (or a
> > custom launcher) onto the panel so that any new user will also receive
> > the customization. I have looked at the GNOME 2.2 admin guide over and
> > over, but I still can't get it happening.
> >
> > Any help would be so appreciated.
>
> Check the list archives, I posted some info on this recently. Let us
> know if it's helpful.

Thanks for the reply Havoc. The following was the most helpful, and 
indeed this does seem to be the way things work on GNOME 2.4. However, 
I was hoping you could clarify a little bit for me in regard to GNOME 
2.4

> 3. The real fun one - /apps/panel/default_setup. When you log in the
>    first time and there are no profiles, the panel _copies manually_ 
> the
>    contents of /apps/panel/default_setup to a new profile. So the panel
>    has its sort of own layer of weird on top of gconf.

Does this mean if I create a panel profile and copy it to:

/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/panel/default_setup

That it should be copied over to the user's ~/.gconf if they don't 
already have one?
Or, am I supposed to copy it to the location below... presumably:

/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/panel/profiles/default

> So, I _believe_ you should be able to create a profile in
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults, under /apps/panel/profiles/, and the
> panel would then simply ignore /apps/panel/default_setup.

I've tried it in both locations, and it still seems to be pulling all 
it's information for the profile from the schemas.

Thanks for any tips you may have!

-Matthew

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Matthew Walburn, RHCE, CCNA
MIT Department of Mathematics