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ubuntu-defaults-builder_0.23_all 
NAME
ubuntu-defaults-template - create skeleton defaults customization
package
SYNOPSIS
ubuntu-defaults-template [ --quiet ] packagename
DESCRIPTION
The ubuntu-defaults-builder project allows you to easily create a
"default settings" package for Ubuntu and then build a customized image
with it. The main purpose for this is to provide a standard and safe
way to create localized Ubuntu images, or OEM custom projects.
The ubuntu-defaults-template script will generate a source package with
the customizable settings (e. g. desktop/background.jpg and
webbrowser/bookmarks-menu.txt). When built and installed, it will take
the necessary actions to modify the system-wide defaults for desktops,
programs, etc.
The first step is to call ubuntu-defaults-template with the target
package name as an argument, for example "ubuntu-defaults-french" or
"mockbuntu-default-settings". This will create a source package with
the given name in the current directory, with a set of (disabled)
example configuration files, and a standard debian/ packaging (using
mostly dh_ubuntu_defaults).
Then you customize the individual configuration files like
webbrowser/bookmarks-menu.txt or unity/launchers.txt to your needs, and
then run dpkg-buildpackage(1) to build the source and binary packages.
Once you install the generated .deb, new users will from then on use
the new default settings.
After you have done this, you can build installation images using
ubuntu-defaults-image(1).
CONFIGURATION
At present you can change the following defaults:
o Desktop background image (desktop/background.jpg)
o Additional .desktop files (desktop/*.desktop, particularly useful to
provide launchers for web applications)
o Default desktop session in login managers (desktop/default-
session.txt) Supports LightDM and GDM right now.
o Default applications (desktop/default-applications.txt)
o Webbrowser start page (webbrowser/startpage.txt and
webbrowser/offline-startpage.txt)
o Additional Webbrowser bookmarks in the Menu and in the Toolbar
(webbrowser/bookmarks-menu.txt and webbrowser/bookmarks-toolbar.txt)
o Webbrowser default search engine (webbrowser/searchengine.txt)
o Radio stations in Rhythmbox and Banshee
(multimedia/radiostations.txt)
o Additional launchers in Unity and Unity 2d (unity/launchers.txt).
o Internationalization support (i18n/language.txt, i18n/langpacks.txt,
i18n/keyboard.txt)
o Additional icons (icons/, *.jpg, *.png, or *.svg, in the directory
hierarchy given in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/)
o Extra packages (depends.txt and recommends.txt)
Except for desktop/background.jpg, all configuration files are simple
text files with one entry per line. Lines which start with '#' are
ignored and can be used for comments. Each configuration file has
comments which document the format and give some example entries.
MACROS
All configuration files can contain macro variables which will be
expanded when building the defaults package. At present, these
variables are known:
o ${distro_release_number} The release number of the Ubuntu release the
package is built on. E. g. "11.04".
o ${distro_release_name} The release code name of the Ubuntu release
the package is built on. E. g. "lucid".
Unknown variables will abort the package build, to avoid unexpected
results.
EXAMPLE
You can run the /usr/share/doc/ubuntu-defaults-builder/examples/make-
example to build an "ubuntu-defaults-test" defaults package in the
current directory, which will exercise all possible customizations by
uncommenting the examples from the configuration files.
SEE ALSO
dh_ubuntu_defaults(1), ubuntu-defaults-image(1)
/usr/share/doc/ubuntu-defaults-builder/examples/make-example
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Oneiric/LocalizedCDImageTools
AUTHOR
ubuntu-defaults-builder is developed by Martin Pitt
<martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>.