> > my limited understanding is that you can tweak existing configuration > > files with it. can you add additional configuration files (like with > > run-parts dirs)? how do upgrades handle gconf customizations? i suppose > > there are different ways to use gconf might fit into different > > categories. > > > > i'm not very familiar with gconf in general, but i'm curious. > > it's possible as gconf allows you to use a different number of > 'configuration sources' (sets of settings) with a priority order between > the different settings (in case of the same setting being specified by > different configuration sources the value of the set with the highest > priority is used). > So what you want to do is add in another configuration source with your > settings at the right priority. thanks. > The big problem is that the list of configuration sources to use, and > priority of those sources is controlled by a single configuration file > (/etc/gconf/2/path) controlled by the gconf2 package. That package > currently doesn't provide a way to add in extra configuration sources or > control the priority of those sources (other then messing with the > conffile). ugh. > The package desktop-profiles provides a cross-desktop way to control the > addition/activation/priority of configuration sets (profiles) (a standard > way to do this is needed to allow the combination of different > configuration sets, e.g. from different CDD's) very cool. how difficult would the desktop-profiles package be to backport to sarge? the code seems relatively simple, but i wonder if the environment variables it hooks into are likely to change significantly(especially over time). live well, vagrant
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