Re: Using gconftool-2 for another user...

[David BERCOT <david.bercot@wanadoo.fr>]

Le lundi 04 décembre 2006 à 12:18 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> Le lundi 04 décembre 2006 à 11:43 +0100, David BERCOT a écrit : 
> > I've tried --config-source=/home/$user/.gconf and it says :
> > 
> > # gconftool-2 --config-source=/home/david.bercot/.gconf --get
> > "/apps/evolution/mail/accounts"
> > L'accès a(ux) source(s) de configuration a échoué : Impossible de
> > résoudre l'adresse de la source de configuration: Impossible de résoudre
> > l'adresse de la source de configuration: Adresse incorrecte
> > « /home/david.bercot/.gconf »
> 
> The correct config source would be "xml::/home/$user/.gconf".

Ah, OK !

> > >  If you wish to set settings for all users, you should write them as
> > >  root into /etc/gconf instead, see /etc/gconf/2/path.
> > 
> > Yes, it would be a good solution. But if a user has the same key, which
> > one will  be the last : the /etc/gconf one or the /home/$user/.gconf
> > one ?
> 
> This is all your choice. You can set default settings or mandatory
> settings. The simplest way to do that is to launch gconf-editor as root.
> It can open you "defaults" and "mandatory" settings windows.

Thank you very much. I understand now ;-)

Just a last question : how can I set a long value (ie :
[<?xml version="1.0"?><account name="David [Wanadoo\]"
uid="1121878401.5156.0@debian-david" enabled="true"><identity>[...]) ?

Thank you.

David.