Gnome is a problem for OEMs

[Antony Gelberg]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 16:56 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 
>>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. 
> 
> 
> I don't know if that would work, but the defaults used for new users
> might be simply whatever root uses.

Why would that be the case?  It's just nonsensical.

> So maybe you can try setting up a root account, log into Gnome as root,
> do whatever changes you need, then disable the root account, and perhaps
> all subsequent users will use this settings ?
> 
> Should take 5 minutes to try, so can't hurt until you get better/more
> informed replies ;-)

Can hurt.  You're telling him to log in to X as root.