Hi all, Here's the story behind my unusual request: My nephew recently had his 4th birthday so I decided to fix up an old 1.4 Athlon box I had kicking around with Ubuntu Edgy loaded with loads of kids apps. I have the setup looking nice, loads of backups of stuff, minimal menu options, restricted permissions, chunky, colourful, picture icons and all the rest of it. My problem is this I have organised the icons to sit on top of a categorised sectored background image. He is still getting to grips with using a mouse, so every so often the desktop shortcuts to all the common apps end up 100 miles from where they SHOULD be.
What I want to do is lock the icons positioning "as-is" and prevent deletion or renaming. I guess I can prevent deletion using chown to root, but as for icon positioning? Is there a .conf file or something that gets edited when the icons or moved, or perhaps a gconf-editor setting?
Perhaps this could make it's way into a future release of Gnome?
Any constructive help or suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance. Ernz