[desktop-discuss] Solaris 10 u2 JDS icon question

[Gary Gatling]

Greetings!

I am trying to affect the appearence of the java desktop system for a user on first login after
a fresh install. Right now I am concentrating on icons on the default desktop.

I want the desktop icons to be similar to those provided by Gnome on a RHEL 4 system since
our user's $HOME is on a network (AFS) and people will be logging into both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5 (5 when it comes out) and Solaris 10. 

I have been able to change a lot of things. But I'm stuck on a couple of last iconic details. 

Right now durring the install I install several openPKG rpms that do various things. 
So far my rpm for desktop effects runs these commands:

if [ -f /usr/share/nautilus/starthere-link.desktop ]; then
        \rm -rf /usr/share/nautilus/starthere-link.desktop
fi
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible true
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/netplaces_icon_visible false


And I remove the SUNWsogm sun style package to get rid of the staroffice 7 icon in the desktop and in the "Launch" menu. 

yes | /usr/sbin/pkgrm SUNWsogm

It seems the home_icon_visible key didn't work as expected. I don't see a "home" folder on the desktop. Did I do something wrong above? running:

gconftool-2 --get /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible

returns:

true

But I don't see the icon on the desktop the first time I log in after an install finishes. :(

My commands did remove the netplaces_icon from the desktop on first login. :)

Also, I have a folder on the desktop called "Documents" that apperently points to a $HOME/Documents/ dir. It seems to be created the first time I log in.

Can this be gotten rid of or changed to be "home" instead somehow? My goal is to just have 3 icons on the default desktop. One called "This Computer" or (better) "Computer" and one that points to $home. And the trash folder. It would be extra cool if there were some way to label the $home folder in the desktop "loginID's Home" like red hat does it on their Gnome desktop but its not absolutely required at this point. Right now I have only three icons but I don't want the "Documents" folder. I want it replaced with a home folder instead so it needs to go up one level.

Any ideas anyone might have?

Thanks!
 
 
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