Creating desktop profiles with Sabayon
Suppose that you are an administrator of a large network. Part of your job involves creating user accounts for new people. Every user has different needs. Technically, you can tailor a desktop for every one of these new users. However, that would quickly get very tedious.
Although users' needs are different, it is possible to segregate these users into various groups. For example, a casual user would only need easy ways to access their mail and the Internet. A graphic artist would need easy access to drawing programs and other visual tools. A visually impaired user would need large fonts and high contrast displays. Each of these users would find the others' desktop settings inconvenient if not confusing.
Instead of creating a new desktop setup every single time a new user comes along, it would be much easier to create some templates. If only there were an easy way to make and manage these templates... Read the rest