Gnome is a problem for OEMs

[Murray Cumming]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 16:56 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've spent all afternoon trying to figure out how I, as an OEM, can 
> configure Gnome before giving it to a user. I just want to change some 
> icons on the panel and maybe a menu entry.
> 
> After exhaustive search, I can only conclude that there is no way to do 
> this. You are stuck with what the Gnome developers think everyone in the 
> world needs. You can't even add a new icon to the default panel. Every 
> user must learn how to locate software on their own and add icons on 
> their own, and if they don't like it, they can go use Windows.

It is bettr to form questions like this
"How do I do X?"
than
"I don't know how to do X. I assume that it is impossible. You are
awful."

[snip]

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Murray Cumming
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