u: > Ulrich Viefhaus: > >> I added a branch to my personal repo with additions to the >> documentation, covering this conversation. >> A new advanced topic for changing gnome settings is added that contains >> the most common commands for the gnome configuration tool and a warning, >> that changing settings could lead to lesser privacy. > > I let people who are into documentation writing take care of this.
Cool! Thanks for the branch. Changing bits of configuration persistently is a very frequent request and I'll happily include good documentation on making this easier. I won't be able to review your branch in details during the summer but I had a look and have some questions about the big picture. On top of documenting how to use gsettings, which you are doing extensively and that's good, I feel like we need more detailed explanation on how to make these specific settings persistent. I didn't test using ~/.dconf as you are suggesting, but only by reading your documentation, it's not clear to me how it works. Dotfiles only work for *files* (and not for *folders*). So which file should be included in the Dotfiles? Also, will this file store all changes made to the GNOME configuration without allowing the user to choose which changes are made persistent and which not? Would these be binaries files or would it be possible for the user to review what's being changed? For example, on my own setup, I made the ~/.xsessionrc file persistent using Dotfiles and added lines of gsettings commands to it. This way I can opt-in for which changes I want to make persistent and also review the sum of my changes. If feel like these are two very important properties (opt-in + reviewable). But I'm not very knowledgeable about GNOME internals so maybe there's a better option than .xsessionrc. >> Here is my branch: >> https://github.com/UlrichViefhaus/dev-tails/tree/gnome-settings >> Don't know how many people need this. But maybe it could reviewed and >> added to the official docs? I could also write a German translation. > > Please don't hesitate to join the german translation team :)) The German translation team coordinates on tails-l...@boum.org, see https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/translate/. It's been quite active in the last months so it should be easy to find small branches to review if you subscribe to the list. _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.