El jue, 22-05-2008 a las 15:29 +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) escribió: > On Thursday 22 May 2008, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: > > No file is copied or modified in the user home directory in no case. As > > I said before, > > > once the user gconf database is created there is (almost) no way to > > automatically change the user appearance. It can be done, but it's not > > very ellegant or clean, so I would not do it, even if it could be > > activated with some global file setting. > > Untrue (that's the beauty of stacking configuration sources): > > to _force_ a new user appearance you merely need to set those changes in > a "mandatory configuration source" (i.e. it has a higher priority then the > user configuration source). > I also know this, but I don't want to do it, I don't want to force the configuration of an user who already has his own configuration. I don't think that's ellegant at all. > If you merely want to have a default user appearance, then you can still > change that easily if it's in a sepperate configuration source, though it > that case anything the user has overwritten will take preference. > > > The key to not having any conflicts is to make sure that each agent has (at > least) one configuration source to call it's own that nobody else messes > with. Debian Edu (or any other agent) then always knows what the state of > it's configuration source is, and can thus change it without running into > unexpected surprises: > > This gives the following sources (any of which may be empty of settings): > - the default system wide one, fille by Debian package defaults > - the debian-edu one, for whatever package defaults debian-edu wants to > override > - a school-specific one, for whatever the admin at the school might want to > override > - the user one Only replacing default values that the user has not customized might be valid from my point of view (and even in this case I doubt). That can be done in the debian-edu layer. Something similar is how kde configuration is done in debian edu and I don't like it (in this case it's still worse as it modifies an ini file in /etc, maybe KDE doesn't allow stacking configurations, I don't know) Anyway, technically, it seems clear how to do it. My concern is mainly a question of Debian Edu policy: is it logical to think that who installs debian-edu-artwork wants to have that artwork for all the new users or only for those who are teachers or students?
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