Customizing Gnome-Panels

[René Oelke]

Sebastien Bacher schrieb:
> Default settings apply only for new user. If an account has already been
> used then the panel configuration has been written as an user setting
> and will not reflect any system change. Any reason you want to force
> your changes over existant users that might have already customized
> their configuration?

Yes, there are some reasons. For example, we want to give our customers 
with an update a better panel layout with some useful buttons on it. And 
so on. The customers settings should be merged with the new default 
panel configuration.

> There is no option saying "user has made no change to his profile yet",
> so it's not easy to determine if that's ok to overwrite the user setting
> or not without asking them
> ...
> There is no gnome-panel interface for that at the moment. The profile
> describes the panel layout basically and there is no "add that object to
> that position" functions you can use. If you want to apply a profile you
> need to overwrite the previous one

Perhaps this should be an upcoming gnome application. A so called "Panel 
Configuration Tool" oder "Panel Layout Managment Tool".

Okay, what i could do is: I don't have to make updates of our panel 
layout packages. We should use one panel layout and don't change it.

What does Ubuntu in this case? Will Ubuntu never change the default 
panel settings in the next versions? Or will Ubuntu change it and 
existing users they updated the system can't use it because "an user 
setting and will not reflect any system change"?

renoe

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René Oelke
Network & System Administrator

JPK Instruments AG
Bouchéstr. 12
12435 Berlin, Germany

Tel: +49 30 5331 12070
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