panel site defaults

[Joseph Carter <knghtbrd debian org>]

I've been working on creating site defaults for panel.  It seems that
there is no mechanism for site defaults in current release versions of
panel.  Nevertheless, I need to be able to, so I've had to investigate
workarounds.

What I have done was take a fresh user by the name of "test" and start up
gnome-session for him.  If I set things up as desired for that and for gmc
(gmc's global default work fine), save .gnome/panel and .gnome/panel.d,
blow away the user's .gnome* .mc and .sawfish*, then put back the panel
stuff, it works fine - the panel comes up as intended and the session
brings up a default Gnome, except with my panel (ie, desired behavior..)

If I then give another user who has not run Gnome before my same panel
configuration, (say knghtbrd in this case), my panel's contents were not
preserved properly.

What do I need to make sure the user gets in order to ensure that the user
gets my defaults, without forcing my settings on them?  Currently I just
leave them alone if they already have panel configuration, but it seems
they need more than just that.

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