Re: gnome desktop icon

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"ERICKSON,IAN \(HP-FtCollins,ex1\)" <ian_erickson hp com> writes:
> I'm working on an X-configurator application.  I want to install a desktop
> icon "xconf.desktop" such that when users are added to the system, this icon
> will show up on their desktop.  The idea is that this will be installed on
> "clean" systems, and this icon should appear for all users added, whether
> using GNOME or KDE.  I have this working in the case of KDE, I put the
> desktop file in /etc/skel/Desktop.... easy.  But with Gnome I can't figure
> out how that works.  I know with RH Linux 6.2... we put a similar file into
> /usr/lib/desktop-links/    to get a Gnome desktop icon, but this doesn't see
> to work for version 7.1.
> 
> Any ideas?  How I can get a desktop icon in Gnome?  

Just /etc/skel/.gnome-desktop should work.

We should really have a standard desktop directory, but that hasn't
been hashed out yet.

Havoc