Comment 4 for bug 1546654

@Sebastien

Onboard might already offer what you are looking for. In fact, Onboard can read on its first run an optional defaults file. The purpose of this file is to allow distributions to configure Onboard to their wishes.

The file is called onboard-defaults.conf and is installed by the patch in the onboard package available in the ubuntu repository.

I am adding an updated version of the onboard package with docking and expansion enabled to this bug thread. In other words, with this updated version, onboard will be docked and stretched from left to right on fresh ubuntu installation (to be more accurate, I should have said on ubuntu installations, that did not run onboard yet).

A few words about the onboard updates offered here:

You might also wonder why I am providing two updates. In fact, I noticed that the patch in version onboard_1.2.0-0ubuntu1 had not been refreshed and was still referencing an older ubuntu version. Thus, I first created onboard_1.2.0-0ubuntu2 that refreshes the patch and then onboard_1.2.0-0ubuntu3 that adds docking and expansion accross the screen to it.

You might wonder why the expand key is not enabled in the updated onboard-defaults.conf for portrait mode. It is not enabled because it is enabled by default for portrait mode.

Maybe an additional final remark:

There is also a way to force the settings in the defaults file on users that did already run onboard in the past. By setting the "use-system-defaults" gsetting key of onboard to true, onboard will read the defaults file when it starts up, write all the configuration settings provided in the file to the users gsetting keys and reset the "use-system-defaults" key to false. In other words, if an onboard package uses its post installation script to set the "use-system-defaults" key to true for all users, their onboard gsettings key will be overwritten with the values of the defaults file on the first onboard start after the installation of onboard. However, I don't think that it is a good idea to change the users configuration without notice and the updates I am attaching here do not contain such a script.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions; marmuta and myself will be glad to help if we can.