Hello all There's an easy way to provide distribution defaults for GNOME 3 and apps that use GSettings (or, say, dconf, the backend), as described in http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/gsettings-override-2011-07-04-15-45.
I have tried successfully the following. Create file /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/lols.gschema.override (the extension .gschema.override is what matters here) with content: -cut here- [org.gnome.FileRoller.UI] view-toolbar=false [org.gnome.shell.clock] show-date=true show-seconds=true [org.gnome.shell.calendar] show-weekdate=true [org.gnome.desktop.background] picture-uri='file:///usr/share/backgrounds/sabayonlinux.png' -cut here- - these are example settings (also note how the wallpaper can be changed - works for GNOME Shell and in the fallback mode). Then (as root): glib-compile-schemas . (/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas was my CWD, otherwise glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas). Done. As user (after creating a backup of the directory, no worries!): cd ~/.config; killall dconf-service && rm -r dconf, log in / start app, and the changes were applied. Notes. - dconf-editor didn't see (check boxes) defaults that were set this way (and I think it did the first time), but everything else, the applications (File Roller, GNOME Shell) used the settings correctly. Looks like a bug in dconf-editor - I'll take a look later. Minor thing, IMO. - This "mechanism" sets/changes settings if user didn't make any change to a setting yet. In other words, it didn't override my settings after I changed them (for example toolbar on/off in FileRoller). - Sabayon can provide such config file in a separate package or as a part of any existent, with gnome-base/dconf and gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas in DEPEND. - As far as I can see, if we want to provide ABCDEF's settings, the app doesn't need to be already installed for the changes to take place after installing ABCDEF (tested where ABCDEF = GNOME Shell), thus - package providing distro settings for ABCDEF doesn't need to have ABCDEF in DEPEND. - Actually all or most packages using this stuff is supposed to call glib-compile-schemas in pkg_postinst/rm: gnome-base/gnome-shell too, which may be the reason why the above point is true. - After all, I think this "mechanism" looks pretty nice... SN
