[K12OSN] nautilus

[Petre Scheie]

You may want to have a look at the 
/usr/sbin/push-icons-to-users-desktops script (I think Eric wrote 
this).  Root's desktop has an icon for it, such that you can setup an 
icon-with-app and then drag it on to the Push-icon-to-users-desktops 
icon and all users then get that icon/app on their desktop.  Without 
looking at it too carefully, I'd think  you'd be able to make a modified 
version of that, put a respective one for each teacher on each teacher's 
desktop (respective meaning it would apply only to that teacher's 
students--perhaps incorporating ideas from Gavin's scripts for 
distributing files based on group), and then the teach could just drag 
the assignment file to that icon, and all the kids get it on their desktop.

Petre

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 19:38, Dennis Daniels wrote:
>  
>
>>>But if you are going to do this often, wouldn't
>>>it be better to write a little script that takes the file
>>>name as an option and copies it to all the right places?
>>>      
>>>
>>Les,
>>Any tips on what that script would look like? Do you have one in your 
>>history file you can share? I'm thinking about homework assignments, 
>>links to shared folders and the like. I'm an English teacher and could 
>>use a little help. :)
>>    
>>
>
>Shell scripts generally do simple text substitutions to create
>the same command line you would type yourself for a command.
>Something like:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>FILE=$1
>for DEST in `cat list`
>do
> mkdir /home/$DEST/homework 2>/dev/null
> cp -v $FILE /home/$DEST/homework/
>done
>
>would take a file named on the command line and deliver it
>to the homework folder in each of the destinations listed
>in a file literally named 'list' which can be space delimited
>or on separate lines.  It is worth spending some time
>reading the bash man page to see how the variable substitution
>works.
>
>---
>  Les Mikesell
>   les at futuresource.com
>
>
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