RE: [Sheflug] LTSP / KDE

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 13:40, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 13:17, Seb James wrote:
> > If you want to set up the Gnome environment, read the Gnome
> > administrators guide and specifically the "gconf" and "menu" sections at
> > http://www.gnome.org/learn/
> > 
> > gconftool-2 is the command that you use for setting up default settings
> > for your users. Very command-line, but it does the business.
> 
> gconf-editor is a nice GUI interface, with neat touches (like, being
> able to set a value to the default as defined by the schema).

I hadn't found this; I had only been able to get gconf-editor change
preferences for the user running it (even if that user were root)

> 
> Gnome admin lockdown doesn't provide you with huge numbers of options,
> although you can use file permissions on Gconf keys too (for example,
> making something read-only can stop users setting that preference,
> although it's a bit coarse-grained). It's probably going to be a lot
> better in 2.8, and there will probably be an admin tool for doing common
> stuff without grovelling around in gconf too much.

Oh good! I really like gnome, but it can be a bit of a pain to set up
for a large user base. This would certainly improve things.

seb



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