Re: Setting Gnome pereferances system wide

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:28:17AM +0100, Mark C wrote:
> 
> Sorry if this has already been asked before, but after some net
> searching, I'm still slightly stuck on the answer.
> 
> I'm build a Debian Gnome desktop for a small local company, and wish to
> set a few things up as default in Gnome-2.2.2 for every user, this way I
> can deploy the same image on every pc (as they are all the same,
> hardware wise), basically set a user default customised theme, edit a
> few gconf settings, like mailto to open in evolution etc..
> 
> This I can do no problem on a per user basis, but I would like to
> somehow set it system wide, so everytime I create a new user, they get
> all the defaults that I have set when they log into gnome.
> 

See the GNOME admin guide, www.gnome.org/learn, 
and the gconf page www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/

also there's some discussion in list archives

Havoc