Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

On 08/22/2007 10:19 PM, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all
> current user's Gnome desktops?
>
> More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link
> to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I also want to put the file
> on a central location, for example in /usr/local/docs. The links on
> desktops are good since any update to the file would not need the links
> to be updated as long as the name of the file remains the same.
>
> (Perhaps this is very much similar to the concept of All Users desktop
> in Windows XP.)
>
> So, any ideas?
>
> thanks,
> ->HS
>
>
>

If I had any ideas, they would probably relate to files within /usr/share such as /usr/share/gnome, /usr/share/gnome-2.0, usr/share/gnome-2.2 and /usr/share/nautilus; however, I can find nothing that defines the default desktop there. Perhaps you'll have better luck.

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