Massproducing Gnome user environments.

["Stan Brown" <stanb awod com>]

	Is this really as big a mess as it seems to be?

	Looks like i have hard code refernces to the sample users home direcoty
	(not ~) in the folowing files:


./.gnome/session:0,CurrentDirectory=/home/acampbell
Binary file ./.gnome/metadata.db matches
./.gnome/panel.d/default/Applet_Config:parameters=/home/acampbell/.gnome//panel.d/default/Applet_2.desktop
./.gnome/gmc-IGd12H:cwd=/home/acampbell
./.enlightenment/.usr.share.enlightenment.config.menus.cfg.preparsed:2 999;  710 "BACKGROUNDS_MENU"  "ROOT_IMAGE" "dirscan"   /home/acampbell"/.enlightenment/backgrounds"
./.mc/history:0=/home/acampbell
./.mc/ini:[/home/acampbell]
./.mc/Tree:1:/home
./.netscape/preferences.js:user_pref("news.directory", "/home/acampbell/");
./.balsarc:    Outbox = {Type = local;Name = Outbox;Path = "/home/acampbell/Mail/outbox";};

	Fair enough, that's a sed script task, but wait what about that binary
	file :-(

	Then ther is this sym link, agaoin to the home direcotry "Home
	direcotyr" isn't that special

	Then after fixing all of these, the desktop icons are broken. I suspect
	something in that magic binary file, again.

	Guys this looks like somethign microsloth would try to push off on the
	world.

	If Gnome is to be a serrious tool to be deployed by real working system
	administraotrs, then there has to be a better way to create the desired
	initial environment for the many, many users we support.

	There are lot's of tools for doing this for all teh clasic . files, and
	they are based upon sed scripts etc, to edit the required flat files.

	2 sugestions:

	1. Replace the hard coded home dircetory refernces with ~

	2. Kill the magic binary file, or if it's _absolutley_ necesary treat
	it like the compiled kill file in nn. That is there is a flat file
	source, and if that is newer thna the binary, upon startup recreate the
	binary.

	Am I really the first person to try to deploy this stuff for multiple
	suers?

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Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    843-745-3154
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