Icons for all users

[Bart Silverstrim]

Shawn Erickson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Shawn Erickson <shawnce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Bart Silverstrim
>> <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>>> In Windows, you can put an icon into c:\documents and settings\all
>>> users\desktop to have an icon for all users who log in.
>>>
>>> Is there an analogous way to do this in OS X?
>> Nope and you should not place anything on the users desktop (or the in
>> dock) unless asked or allowed by the user.
>>
>> If your application is installed (or copied by the user) under
>> /Applications all users will see and have access to it (assuming
>> proper file permissions).
> 
> Sorry thought this email was on one of the developers lists...
> 
> Can you outline what exactly you are trying to achieve? ...and in what
> context? (systems you manage, etc.)

About 200 laptops used by students in a public school that don't want to 
click on Finder->applications to run an application :-/

We need to image them and deploy them over the summer to 
update/configure things to our primarily Active-Directory network. One 
of the things users want is to have icons all over the place to find 
"common applications" they use.

In Windows, we do this with the "all users" skeleton profile directory 
that is merged with their own when they log in. OS X uses home 
directories to configure preferences, so to my knowledge it wouldn't 
work, so I thought I'd ask here :-)