David Zeuthen (davidz(a)redhat.com) said:
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:56 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:38 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:10 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > One thing we probably want on the desktop live cd, compared to mainline
> > > Fedora, is making sure that the user's home directory are
> > > world-executable, e.g. like this
> >
> > It's less of a low-hanging fruit, but I would love to also see us give
> > every new account a random icon by default. It would be much cooler to
> > see that than the question-mark silhouette.
>
> random requires useradd hacking... something other than the question
> mark just requires dropping something in /etc/skel...
Ideally we'd just ask questions like these (plus preselecting a suitable
random one) as part of the installation process including using GNOME
Cheese / ktuberling / etc. style apps available. Other things I'd like
to see is the ability to select the desktop background / color scheme /
whatever. It's also a nice place to plug in migration tools to fetch
this data from another OS / whatever.
Also, it's preferable to do this at install time rather than firstboot
time. Because I'm not so sure firstboot makes a lot of sense for a
desktop/laptop targeted OS (though I'm sure it's great for enterprise
workstation deployments).
? Surely all the 'create user' bits (which are in firstboot) are where
you'd do this. Unless you want to move those into anaconda itself.
Bill