My thanks to all who gave me leads and such on this jolly trek I've been on. May asked me to post the answer when I got it, so here it is.
For these examples I removed the OpenOffice Spreadsheet, and put the terminal button first (before the web browser)
RedHat 9 and Enterprise 3 (Gnome 2.2) ------------------------- Edit the files /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/general/%gconf.xml /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/objects/terminal_launcher/%gconf.xml
In general/%gconf.xml I replaced the word spreadsheet_launcher with terminal_launcher
In terminal_launcher/%gconf.xml I changed the 'position' value from 300 to 25
Fedora Core 1 (Gnome 2.4) ------------- Edit the file /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/panel/default_setup/general/%gconf.xml and add the file/directory /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/panel/default_setup/objects/terminal_launcher/%gconf.xml
in general/%gconf.xml I replaced the word spreadsheet_launcher with terminal_launcher
For the file terminal_launcher/%gconf.xml well ... I haven't gotten that right yet. I just know that when I have it wrong I get a nice error when I startup gnome. Since at the moment, my main users are RedHat 9 and Enterprise 3 users, I'm going to say that it's good enough because I found the file :)
EXTRA ----- Good documentation http://www.gnome.org/learn/ http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.2/gconf-8.html#gconf-14 http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/gconf-8.html#gconf-14
Just note that at least for the Gnome 2.2, the examples they use are not what you find in RedHat 9. This led me on a wild goose chase (but at least I had a goose to chase)
Also note that you can do all that I did using gconf, but after working with the syntax of it, I finolly gave up and did things by hand.
Hope this helps people Troy Dawson -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
