[Fedora-desktop-list] Changing default Gnome panel buttons - please

[Troy Dawson]

Hello Again,
I have now been told by every fedora mailling list that this is indeed 
the list to ask this question.

I can understand if most of you don't any idea how to do this, but the 
person who makes the changes for Fedora should be on this list and if 
he, or any one else knows how, please as least give me a bigger hint 
than RTFM.  After reading at least 50 of them, two versions of the gnome 
administration manual (2.2 and 2.4), along with the user manuals that go 
with them, and so much code and changelogs that I'm rather sick of 
them.  I'd like to sum it all up from one of the Austin Power movies.

"Throw me a friggin bone"

What file, or set of files, do you need to modify, to change the default 
gnome-panel buttons?
By default I mean the buttons that a newly created user would see.

Troy Dawson

[Jonathan Blandford]

Troy Dawson <dawson(a)fnal.gov&gt; writes:

>  What file, or set of files, do you need to modify, to change the
>  default gnome-panel buttons?
>  By default I mean the buttons that a newly created user would see. 
The sysadmin guide at http://www.gnome.org/learn/ has a section on
configuring the panel.  You should start there.  Taking a quick look:
http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/gconf-8.html#gconf-14
has information.

Good luck,
-Jonathan

[Trae McCombs]

Hey Troy,

I could be totally wrong here, but I did some checking and a friend of
mine, suggested maybe this area:
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/panel/default_setup/objects

I don't know if that's right or not... but it's some place to start.  I
would also consider hanging on #gnome perhaps...  on irc.gnome.org  I'm
"occy" there if you need any help.  Maybe together we can fixx0r it. :)

Trae


On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:23, Troy Dawson wrote:
>  Hello Again,
>  I have now been told by every fedora mailling list that this is indeed 
>  the list to ask this question.
>  
>  I can understand if most of you don't any idea how to do this, but the 
>  person who makes the changes for Fedora should be on this list and if 
>  he, or any one else knows how, please as least give me a bigger hint 
>  than RTFM.  After reading at least 50 of them, two versions of the gnome 
>  administration manual (2.2 and 2.4), along with the user manuals that go 
>  with them, and so much code and changelogs that I'm rather sick of 
>  them.  I'd like to sum it all up from one of the Austin Power movies.
>  
>  "Throw me a friggin bone"
>  
>  What file, or set of files, do you need to modify, to change the default 
>  gnome-panel buttons?
>  By default I mean the buttons that a newly created user would see.
>  
>  Troy Dawson
>  
>  
>  
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[Jon W. Bius]

In digging through GConf editor, I found something under
/apps/panel/default_setup/general that pointed to the locations of the
panel. It actually contained the stuff that is in the default setup.

I'm not sure if that helps, but if it's something that could be edited
within ~/.gconf, couldn't that be placed in /etc/skel so that new users
would be created with those setting?

(I'm basing the /etc/skel part on what I read in "Red Hat Linux 9
Bible".)

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:23, Troy Dawson wrote:

>  Hello Again,
>  I have now been told by every fedora mailling list that this is indeed 
>  the list to ask this question.
>  
>  I can understand if most of you don't any idea how to do this, but the 
>  person who makes the changes for Fedora should be on this list and if 
>  he, or any one else knows how, please as least give me a bigger hint 
>  than RTFM.  After reading at least 50 of them, two versions of the gnome 
>  administration manual (2.2 and 2.4), along with the user manuals that go 
>  with them, and so much code and changelogs that I'm rather sick of 
>  them.  I'd like to sum it all up from one of the Austin Power movies.
>  
>  "Throw me a friggin bone"
>  
>  What file, or set of files, do you need to modify, to change the default 
>  gnome-panel buttons?
>  By default I mean the buttons that a newly created user would see.
>  
>  Troy Dawson
>  
>  
>  
>  --
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>  Fedora-desktop-list(a)redhat.com
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[Troy Dawson]

Hi,
Thanks for the help. And thanks to those that tossed me some bones :)
I'm going to move this over to gnome's maillist lists. 
I am currently working on RedHat 9 and RedHat Enterprise 3, and don't 
have access to my actual Fedora machine, but I thought the 
configurations would still be close enough, but it looks like they 
arn't.  I believe I'm going to have to do things different between Gnome 
2.2 and 2.4.   It certainly looks like it is easier to set it in gnome 
2.4 (Fedora) versus 2.2 (RedHat 9 and Enterprise 3)
I'm sorry to have bothered ya'll.
If you wish, I'll post the answer when I get it. 
Thanks again.
Troy Dawson

Troy Dawson wrote:

>  Hello Again,
>  I have now been told by every fedora mailling list that this is indeed 
>  the list to ask this question.
>
>  I can understand if most of you don't any idea how to do this, but the 
>  person who makes the changes for Fedora should be on this list and if 
>  he, or any one else knows how, please as least give me a bigger hint 
>  than RTFM.  After reading at least 50 of them, two versions of the 
>  gnome administration manual (2.2 and 2.4), along with the user manuals 
>  that go with them, and so much code and changelogs that I'm rather 
>  sick of them.  I'd like to sum it all up from one of the Austin Power 
>  movies.
>
>  "Throw me a friggin bone"
>
>  What file, or set of files, do you need to modify, to change the 
>  default gnome-panel buttons?
>  By default I mean the buttons that a newly created user would see.
>
>  Troy Dawson
>  
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