Icons for all users

[Bart Silverstrim]

Andrew Merenbach wrote:
> Quoting Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>:
> 
>> 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 :-)
> 
> Hi!  If all you want to do is provide easy access to your applications, 
> why not make use of the Dock at the bottom of the screen?

Where do you set what non-standard icons/shortcuts you want for every 
user to have in their dock?