how to change every user's Gnome Panel contents

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jody · Post by **jody** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:55 am

Hi

I have written an application which should appear on the
gnome panel of all users of a particular workstation
of which i am the sysadmin.

Is there some way to this comfortably (i.e. not instructing
every user how to add a launcher to the Panel etc)?

Perhaps there is some master gnome panel configuration file
that can be changed accordingly?

Thank You
Jody

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:11 pm

I'm sure there is, but since adding a launcher to the panel is so easy you shouldn't be using a computer if you can't follow such simple instructions, I would think it would be much easier for you to post via the network instructions for doing this. It'll be good for the users' brains, too.

XQYZ · Post by **XQYZ** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:41 pm

I don't think there is. A new user gets the default files created for him and is on it's own from there on. It's not usually inheriting something from a template.

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:16 pm

Bad joke time!

Dude... my template died and left me an inheritance.

jody · Post by **jody** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 5:29 pm

audiodef wrote:Bad joke time!

Dude... my template died and left me an inheritance.

Just out of curiosity i tried to find where gnome remembers my panel stuff,
but i couldn't find it. the directory '.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/' contained some stuff i do have on my panel (firefox, revelation),
but other things like calculator, terminal or volume control are not represented there.

Thank You
Jody

XQYZ · Post by **XQYZ** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 5:33 pm

jody wrote:Just out of curiosity i tried to find where gnome remembers my panel stuff

It's actually in gconf /apps/panel/ somewhere. Mhm... actually, that might make it exploitable for script usage, if you are able to figure out the weird format they are using.

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:18 pm

All I can say is good luck! Gnome gave me problems on Gentoo and on Ubuntu. I avoid the plague like Gnome.

debotux · Post by **debotux** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:37 am

You can try Sabayon.