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:

       • Desktop background image (desktop/background.jpg)

       • Additional .desktop  files  (desktop/*.desktop,  particularly  useful  to  provide  launchers  for  web
         applications)

       • Default  desktop session in login managers (desktop/default-session.txt) Supports LightDM and GDM right
         now.

       • Default applications (desktop/default-applications.txt)

       • Webbrowser start page (webbrowser/startpage.txt)

       • Additional Webbrowser bookmarks in the Menu  and  in  the  Toolbar  (webbrowser/bookmarks-menu.txt  and
         webbrowser/bookmarks-toolbar.txt)

       • Webbrowser default search engine (webbrowser/searchengine.txt)

       • Radio stations in Rhythmbox and Banshee (multimedia/radiostations.txt)

       • Additional launchers in Unity and Unity 2d (unity/launchers.txt).

       • Internationalization support (i18n/language.txt, i18n/langpacks.txt, i18n/keyboard.txt)

       • Additional   icons   (icons/,   *.jpg,   *.png,   or   *.svg,  in  the  directory  hierarchy  given  in
         /usr/share/icons/hicolor/)

       • 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:

       • ${distro_release_number}  The  release  number  of  the  Ubuntu  release the package is built on. E. g.
         "11.04".

       • ${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 "defaults-
       builder-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>.

Martin Pitt                                       June 22, 2011                      ubuntu-defaults-template(1)