Re: Central gnome-shell settings

[Justin Edwards <justin telelanguage com>]

Milan,

I was able to exclude all applications easily by using gmenu's editor.  My goal is to not allow applications to be ran that hurt productivity.  Or applications that managers will complain about.  I allow chromium, openoffice, and tools like calculator.   the gmenu editor still doesn't lock down the system preferences correctly with gnome shell, so I had to do a chmod -x on gnome-control-center.  I have't tested disabling alt+f2 yet to run other applications like gnome-terminal, but when they're locked down properly with iron bar shell as a default shell in passwd, they can't compromise the system anyhow.  I also have to change permissions on hidden folders ~/.* so that they cannot change their settings and get out of restrictions.

I have the users locked down with a content filter at a firewall.  Our company applications are all web based, and require specific tested build numbers of chromium because of _javascript_ rendering.  

I think what I've done so far is sufficient, but I will have to verify later that disabling command line (alt+f2), like in previous gnome, works in gnome-shell.  

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr> wrote:

Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 à 20:01 -0500, Justin Edwards a écrit :

> Hello everyone,
>
> Looking for configuration / administration documentation.
>
>
> I have searched through all I could find online as far as gnome-shell
> administration.   I understand that there isn't a 'stable' build yet
> for gnome-shell, but want to work on getting it setup to deploy to
> part of our callcenter.  I have done a lot of testing with it, and it
> is a much more efficient interface for our employees (once they are
> shown the shortcuts).
>
>
> I'm sure sabayon or any other great gui interfaces are tied into
> gnome-shell yet, but I'd like to know the general paths that
> gnome-shell follows in order to be setup.   So far
> gs-applications.menu is the only set in stone configuration I've seen.
> The others I'm not sure if they're pre gnome-shell, or what.   I've
> read that gnome-shell will be using dconf and GSettings.

What kind of settings to you want to set exactly? Sure, you can use
GSettings to set a few things, but most of the Shell's behavior is
either configurable from the GUI (e.g. the clock), or not allowed to be
changed (animations...). There are also older settings that are stored
in GConf for now, like the keybindings.

So in short, please tell us what you want to do if you expect more
precise help.