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Chapter 3 Using the Configuration Workspace for Customized Files
As you saw in Chapter 2 "Customizing Mozilla in Ten Minutes," the first screen presented by the CCK tool allows you to select a configuration (or create a new one). Each configuration available to the CCK tool has a corresponding directory where the installer for that configuration resides.
The configuration directory also includes a Workspace directory. If you need to do create an animated logo or customize bookmarks, the default My Sidebar tabs, the read-me file, and other aspects of Mozilla 1.4.1. that require you to prepare files before running the CCK tool, you can use the Workspace to store your customized files while you work on them.
This chapter describes the contents of the configuration directory, the files you can customize, and where to store them in the Workspace directory. The chapters that follow summarize how to prepare the information and files relevant to each of the remaining screens presented by the CCK tool.
This chapter contains these sections:
Creating a New Installer Configuration
The Configuration Directory
Customized Files Checklist
Platform and Configuration InformationCreating a New Installer Configuration
The first screen of the CCK tool includes a drop-down list (near the lower-left corner) that allows you to select a configuration. You can also use this screen to create a new configuration or create a copy of an existing configuration.
Each configuration name in the drop-down list corresponds to a configuration directory of the same name (described in detail in the section that follows). A configuration directory stores both customized files that you supply for use by the CCK tool and the customized Mozilla 1.4.1 installation files created by the CCK tool.
The CCK tool applies the customizations you specify to the configuration selected in the first screen. If you are customizing features that require you to prepare custom files in advance, you should prepare and verify those files before you run the tool.
The rest of this chapter describes the layout of the configuration directory and summarizes the files you must prepare for various customizations. The chapters that follow describe how to prepare the customized files for the customizations you can specify with the CCK tool.
Each configuration name listed in the drop-down list on the first screen of the CCK tool corresponds to a directory name in this location:
After you run the CCK tool for a given configuration, the corresponding configuration directory contains the following subdirectories and files (assuming the configuration includes a CD autorun screen as well as a network installer):
Outputcontains all customized installation files:
Workspaceincludes the following subdirectories for storing your customized files:
AnimLogostores the .GIF files associated with the animated logo button. See Customizing the Mozilla Browser for the instructions to create these files.Autorunstores a custom background image for the CD autorun screen. See Customizing the CD Autorun Screen for the instructions to create the custom files.Bkmarksstores a custom bookmarks file for the Navigator browser. See Customizing the Mozilla Browser for the instructions to create this file.CustInststores additional installers (in the form of self-extracting executable files) that will run after the main installation completes. See Creating Mozilla Installers for more information about providing additional installers.Sidebarstores a custompanels.rdffile, which contains the sidebar information used by the browser. See Customizing the Mozilla Browser for instructions on modifying the default panels.rdf file.In the default and sample MyISP configurations,
license.txtandreadme.txt(the Mozilla license and read-me files) are located in theOutputdirectory. In all other configurations, these two files are located one level higher (in the my_config directory).
Table 3-1 lists the customizations that require customized files and where to find information about preparing those files.
Table 3-1 Mozilla 1.4.1 customized file checklist
Animated and at-rest GIF files (32 x 32) for the animated logo
Chapter 5 "Preparing to Customize the Mozilla Browser"page 67
Chapter 5 "Preparing to Customize the Mozilla Browser"page 67
Custom background graphic for CD autorun screen (for CD-based installers)
640 x 480 bitmap file containing your custom background image
Chapter 5 "Preparing to Customize the Mozilla Browser"page 67
Chapter 5 "Preparing to Customize the Mozilla Browser"page 67
Platform and Configuration Information
Table 3-2 summarizes the Mozilla 1.4.1 customizations you can make with the CCK tool and the platforms on which they are supported.
Table 3-2 Summary of CCK tool customizations
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