Time for a sabayon-config-gnome package then. Hopefully we can start moving
away from skel ...
On Sep 6, 2011 11:58 AM, "Sławomir Nizio" <slawomir.ni...@sabayon.org>
wrote:
> 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
>
