On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 15:08 +0000, Chris Vaughan wrote: > Thanks, I already know how to create a desktop icon. What I want is a > default template of sorts so that when a new user is created a set of > icons appear automatically. I guess I could create a startup script > that would parse /home/users to determine if a new user has been > created and then write the icons to the desktop. > > That seams a little excessive though and I'm assuming there is > something already available in Gnome that does it. If not it would be > nice if you could add it! It would make life for software developers > easier to create a polished install for Linux. > > Thanks, >
You can create a Desktop folder in /etc/skel and put your desktop icons there. Jon > On 1/3/07, Adam Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/3/07, Chris Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I am trying to do is create an installer for a software > tool I have > > been developing. I would like something that sounds > relatively simple to > > happen. For every user that is created on the system i > would like 2 icons > > which are shortcuts to the application to appear on their > desktop. So if a > > new user is created he gets 2 default icons every time. > > > > Does anyone know of a clean and easy way to do this? > > In GNOME, "icons" or launchers on the desktop are > simply .desktop > files placed in the ~/Desktop directory. Drag an item out of > the > applications menu to see the format of the file or look at > freedesktop.org. > > Adam > > > > -- > ------------------------------ > Christopher Vaughan > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
