Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome
Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 08/22/2007 10:19 PM, H.S. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all
>> current user's Gnome desktops?
>>
>> More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link
>> to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I also want to put the
>> file on a central location, for example in /usr/local/docs. The links
>> on desktops are good since any update to the file would not need the
>> links to be updated as long as the name of the file remains the same.
>>
>> (Perhaps this is very much similar to the concept of All Users desktop
>> in Windows XP.)
>>
>> So, any ideas?
>>
>> thanks,
>> ->HS
>>
>>
>>
>
> If I had any ideas, they would probably relate to files within
> /usr/share such as /usr/share/gnome, /usr/share/gnome-2.0,
> usr/share/gnome-2.2 and /usr/share/nautilus; however, I can find nothing
> that defines the default desktop there. Perhaps you'll have better luck.
>
>
This seems to be promising:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gnome_Desktop_Admin_Guide
At least it introduces the workings of gconf.
->HS
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