Re: Debianizing Debian's GNOME/KDE a bit more

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@gmx.de>]

Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos@pemas.net> writes:

[...]

> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type string --set
> /apps/gnome-session/options/splash_image
> "/usr/share/images/desktop-base/Splash-Debian_red.png"

[...]

Yes, sure this looks more elegant. But then then desktop-base either
has to depend on gconf, which is not desirable for anyone who wants
only KDE or you have to silently skip this command if gconf is not
available at postinst time. But then, what do you do if gconf is being
installed at any later stage? 

Probably the postinst for gconf would have to be modified to check for
the presense of the desktop-base package. If the latter is installed,
it should register a yet-to-be-written
"/etc/gconf/schemas/desktop-base.schemas" that contains any
Debian-specific GNOME settings.

Thanks,

Johannes