Re: default and mandatory settings

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 13:29 -0400, Ron Salyers wrote:
> I'm new to gnome so forgive me if these are stupid questions.  I'm just 
> trying to make sure I understand how it works.
> 
> Theoretically if I copied everything in the 
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults directory into the 
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory directory, suddenly all of my default 
> settings would become mandatory.  Correct?  Not that I would do this. 
> I'm just verifying that this is the type of content this directory 
> should have.  It's empty by default, so I can't say for sure.

Should work. Check out gnome-scrooge section
http://gentoo-wiki.com/GNOME_Admin_Guide_quick-n-dirty


> 
> Also, if login as a test user, make changes to preferences, then copy 
> the contents of the test user's .gonf directory to the 
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults directory, the changes I made to the test 
> user's preference would be my default settings for other users?  In this 
> case will I have to worry about there being any references to my test 
> username in any of the config files?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron
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