system wide gnome desktop configuration

[Matthew Flaschen]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> H.S. a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> How can I make system wide configuration changes in Gnome? For example, 
>> on all users' desktop:
>>
>> 1. Volumes icons should not appear.
>> 2. CDROM and DVD icons should appear.
>> 3. A bunch of PDF files (located in /usr/local/share/doc) should appear 
>> as links (these are some custom help files and should be easy to find by 
>> all users without having to know what "/usr/local/share" is!).
>>
>> Suggestions?
>> ->HS
>>
>>
> 
> There is 2 ways to understand what you want to do :
> 
> 1. do you want to create a model for all users you'll create ? if so , 
> create a first account, set that account up to fit your model. Then copy 
> the concerned config files into /etc/skel/ .
> 
> 2. If you want to make those changes for all existing users I think 
> you'll have to create a script that do it. Loop in the users list and 
> apply the changes .

I don't think that's right.  See
http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/

Matt Flaschen

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