configuring unity launcher for 200+ users

[Florian Diesch]

Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw at yahoo.com> writes:

> We plan to upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04 in a 250 user UK Junior school. I'd like to put some popular, often-used programs on the launcher, as well as remove Ubuntu One, software centre, settings etc which won't be needed. In fact, the latter is more a priority than the former as I don't want irrelevant stuff cloggin up the launcher.
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> How might we achieve that? I can't find a relevant directory or file that I could distribute across the users.

The launcher items are stored in GSettings at schema
'com.canonical.Unity.Launcher' key 'favorites'.


See
<http://askubuntu.com/questions/65900/how-can-i-change-default-settings-for-new-users/>
for how to create a override file to set defaults.




   Florian
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Indicator applet for Unity that provides the main menu of Gnome Classic:
<http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/classicmenu-indicator/>