On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:34 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

Hi, Stanislav,

I'm working on a patch to let sysadmins define desktop icons to be shown in users' desktops. We can also use this to set up our branded desktop icons ("Online Help", "openSUSE") without special stuff in /usr/bin/gnome.

I want to move those .desktop files from our gnome-session package into desktop-data-openSUSE. We can install them in a new directory, /usr/share/desktop-icons.

I would also need to change a GConf default for the new key /apps/nautilus/desktop/predefined_item_dir to point it to that directory.

My question is how to set/unset that default. Can I just put this in the specfile?

gconftool-2 --direct--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \ --type string --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/predefined_items_dir /usr/share/desktop-icons

Plus the corresponding --unset for uninstallation time.

look at the gconf2-brandinf-openSUSE package, it's got a macro to do this (%gconfsomething), so just, if Stanislav doesn't say differently, set the values you want as defaults in that package.