Default preferences (was Re: Plans for ahead)

[Germán Arias]

Hi,

El sáb, 28-11-2015 a las 16:25 +0100, Riccardo Mottola escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> David Chisnall wrote:
> > I agree.  The FreeBSD GNUstep packages include a lot of things, but you 
> > need to do a lot of tinkering to make them integrate even vaguely with 
> > typical environments.  For the ones that we use in the lab, I’ve configured 
> > a more modern looking theme[1] and the in-window menus.  With this, the 
> > apps still look fairly distinctive, but work quite well and people don’t 
> > complain.
> 
> I absolutely want "our" menus, they are distinctive and useful and if I 
> were to make a reference distribution, I'd want to retain that.
> 
> You have the opposite problem, you want to deploy a certain GS 
> application into a non-GS environment.
> I know the pain, I have exactly the same need!
> 
> I have my app, I have an in-window menu theme (in this case needed 
> because you are the foreign thing to fit into Windows or GNOME). But 
> then  still every single user needs to "set" the theme for himself.
> 
> This is the problem I often referred to, where I want to be able to 
> "set" a default preference for a user. Or to have certain preferences 
> pre-set inside a plist. A way so that once installed an pp sets some 
> defaults to itself. System wide defaults?
> When installing with a package one could do perhaps a post-installation 
> script, but that is not my case.
> 
> I think this is the opposite of the original topic, but still very 
> useful to solve.
> 
> Riccardo
> 

But this is possible using GlobalDefaults subdirectory or
GlobalDefaults.plist as described here:

http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/Reference/index.html

The only case when this doesn't works for me, is for a binary package of
gnustep itself (for development). In this case I need provide a
GNUstep.conf with paths for libraries and headers. And it seems that
cause conflicts with GlobalDefaults when user source GNUstep.sh. So he
should run SystemPreferences and make the necessary changes. Or maybe
I'm doing something wrong.

Germán