Re: How to do simple desktop configs?

[Jehan Procaccia int-evry fr]

On 22 Feb 2002, William Lovaton wrote:

> El vie, 22-02-2002 a las 03:29, Jehan Procaccia int-evry fr escribió:
> > OK Thanks for the tip, but this is what I don't want to do. I am managing 
> > 2000 user accounts, on different NFS servers, I don't want to modify (even 
> > with scripts) 2000 ~user/.gnome-desktop every time I have to 
> > add/delete/change an icon on the desktop !.
> > 
> > If gnome developper read this, please think in future releases to include 
> > not only the reading of ~user/.gnome-desktop to populate desktop icons, 
> > but also a centralize gnome-desktop like /user/share/gnome/desktop for instance .
> > This would be very usefull for system adminisrators to be able to 
> > centralize gnome top menus and panel icons as well.
> 
> What you want is something like Windows 2000 Desktop, there is an "All
> Users" directory, so you can put common elements to all users such as
> menu entries and desktop icons.

Yes that's what I meant . Too bad it's not implemented in gnome :-( , I 
don't know about KDE ... but I remember previous windows manager like fvwm 
where you could have an fvwm file managed by root for everyone .
 
> You are right!  this is a nice feature and it would be great if that
> could be implemented in Gnome, KDE, etc.
> 
> William.
> 
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