GNOME - Modifying themes/menus/etc. for all users?

[MDesigner]

I can easily add items to the Gnome application menu, change my themes, etc... but I was wondering, how do I do this for all current user accounts, AND future users? A kind of "default look" for the whole system?

Thanks :)

[MDesigner]

bump

[rbrimhall]

For applications create launchers in /usr/share/applications... these will show up in all users' menus with whatever icon you set for them. Just use a default .desktop in the dir. to get you started. I usually copy it over to whatever launcher I'm going to create.

cp mozilla.desktop firefox.desktop

and then gedit firefox.desktop

changing all of the mozilla stuff to firefox.

[MDesigner]

Cool, works great :) Now once I choose a theme for myself, how do I make that the theme for all users and all future users?

[rbrimhall]

Look around in gconf editor... there is a section that shows default gnome settings for users somewhere in there... at least there was on fedora core...

[MDesigner]

Didn't find anything in gconf... unless it's not obvious and/or I missed it.

[rbrimhall]

From DL Gnome Forums....

http://www.dropline.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2982