Le lun 10/03/2003 � 09:44, Buchan Milne a �crit :
> > If you're selling systems, you might want to setup a theme, or stuff
> > like that as well. Here's an example of what you could do:
> > In /usr/bin/kdesktop-links, add something like:
> > That way, it will setup defaults the first time the user logins.

> This kind of stuff needs to be package, IMHO with a GUI, and put on
> ProSuite or similar, so that corporates can also do this kind of thing.
> draksplash etc are nice, but how about a gui where you just choose your
> company logo (for KDM screen, screensaver etc), background (?dm
> backgrounds, bootsplash etc), select your template config files, and
> generate an RPM?

Yes, that's what I plan to do eventually, but there are certain things
we need to modify first. 
- krozat, the screensaver, has hard-coded colors, which is not good if
the company logo is not Mandrake blue. Same thing with the Gnome
screensaver (Gdadou?), except that it's an XML file.
- kdesktop_links is in kdebase, while it's really a script, and could be
contained in mandrake_desk or similar package for easy replacement.
Would you imagine recompiling kdebase just to add an icon on the
desktop? ;-)

And we have to find out what to do with upgrades, so that new packages
will not overwrite the user's theme.

> We have an rpm we use for desktop machines, which on %post does a number
> of operations (add urpmi update source, add NFS mounts to fstab,
> installs bootsplash theme, and updates many config files). If a company
> then also had a urpmi repository (marked as update source), they would
> only need to update the rpm, and have the automagic updates (see urpmi
> evangelism thread) pull it in the next morning.

The Sherbrooke University LUG does basically the same thing. 

We only have to find out a clean way to do it, and we'll submit it when
it's ready.

Jean-Michel


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