> 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.
That's the right solution, using the skel[1] dir, you could even get the location of the skel dir from the output of 'useradd -D' in case some distro/admin have changed the default /etc/skel (which is rare). [1] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20031222-newsletter.xml#doc_chap7 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
