Exporting Config FIles

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 01:34, Jason Dusek wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Piotr Smyrak wrote to me directly with a simple suggestion - I include 
> his comments below along with my reply.
> 
> Piotr Smyrak wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:07:51 -0600, Jason Dusek
> ><jdusek at cs.uiowa.edu>  wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I need to setup a nifty GNOME configuration for several users,
> >>with a large number of launchers and similar conveniences. 
> >>However, most of the users need basically the same stuff - so what
> >>I should do is set it up once for one of them, and then export it.
> >> How do I do that?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Skeletons?
> >
> >  
> >
> If you grep your gnome config files for your name, you'll find that your 
> own directory structure is hard coded into them.  So, simply copying 
> your stuff into /usr/shar/skel is not a good idea - because if one user 
> changes a certain configuration option, it could change that feature for 
> /all/ the users.  There needs to be some kind of 'transfer to so and so' 
> option.  I was wondering if any work had been done on this, or if anyone 
> had a workaround.

Why not just modify the system defaults so that each user's default
desktop has all the launchers setup the way you want?

Joe

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