Re: RedHat 8 - MetaCity + Blue Curve Desktop Menu Customization

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Ross Vandegrift wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:52:13PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  
>
> > > Requirements
> > > Each end-user will run the same applications and the desktop panel.  
> > > End-users cannot change the menus or panel.
> > > Remove choices and un-necessary items from the menu.
> > >      
>
> I've deployed a desktop setup that had similar requirements.  I asked
> around on the lists, and googled for a way to manage this and instead
> came up with an ad hoc solution.
>
> When a new user is created, I parse a generic Gnome environment setup
> that I made beforehand to fill in the data needed for the new user.
> adduser.local then installs this Gnome configuration into the newly
> created home directory.
>  
How about making some/all of the files root owned and not writable? 
Perhapse even use symlinks, again not changable by the user to a 
skeleton directory. so for example,$HOME/.gnome2/vfolders and the menu 
files inside. Probaby the same for some of the gconf key files 
(%gconf.xml) in $HOME/.gconf/

Locking gnome-panel might be a little harder. I'm not sure which files 
it uses/creates, or if they need to be writable for it to work. Havoc?

   -Thomas