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<chapter id="chap-Customization_Guide-Customization">
<title>Customization</title>
<para>
This chapter will introduce you to the exact steps on how to customize Sugar on a Stick by editing the appropriate files and running a complete build process thereafter.
</para>
<section id="sect-Creation_Kit-Customization-Overview">
<title>Overview</title>
<para>There are namely two kickstart files to look at:</para>
<itemizedlist>
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<para>
<filename>fedora-live-mini.ks</filename> - this file is shared with a number of other Fedora Mini <footnote><para>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMini</para></footnote> projects and contains the package set for the base operating system, as well as other configurations for such purposes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<filename>fedora-livecd-soas.ks</filename> - this file contains all the changes required to actually make Sugar on a Stick, such as the unique package set and a number of other modifications to fit the special design.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
In the following sections, we will walk through the different parameters and enable you to customize them.
</para>
</section>
<section id="sect-Creation_Kit-Customization-Locales">
<title>Locales</title>
<para>
One of the most requested changes to Sugar on a Stick is understandably the modification of the locals and keyboard settings. Sugar is a well localized learning environment and users of Sugar on a Stick should be able to take advantage of this fact.
</para>
<para>
Language customizations take place in the <filename>fedora-live-mini.ks</filename> file. At the top of this file, you will find the following three lines:
</para>
<programlisting>
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone US/Eastern
</programlisting>
<para>
These lines impact the default language, keyboard setting and timezone configuration of Sugar on a Stick. You can modify them to fit your needs by following the given scheme as explained in the Kickstart Options <footnote><para>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_2._Kickstart_Options</para></footnote>.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
A list of the valid language codes for the lang parameter is availible in the first column of each line in the following file. Execute: <command>less /usr/share/system-config-language/locale-list</command>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A list of valid keyboard settings is available in the following file. Execute: <command>less /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/system_config_keyboard/keyboard_models.py</command>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section id="sect-Creation_Kit-Customization-Packages">
<title>Packages</title>
<para>
Another inevitable request we received concerns the selection of activities. For the upcoming Sugar on a Stick releases, we decided to include a number of core activities, allowing users to add more themselves from the <ulink url="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/">Activity Portal</ulink>. However, deployments and experienced users might want to customize the base set of activities as described in this section.
</para>
<para>
Package set customizations take place in the <filename>fedora-livecd-soas.ks</filename> file, in which you will find a line listing a number of activities. This is the place to add new activities.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
To get an overview what activities are available, run: <command>yum list "sugar-*"</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
You will be presented a list of available activities following the <command>sugar-<replaceable>name</replaceable></command> naming scheme.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add your preferred activities to the list in the kickstart file.
<important>
<para>
Pay attention to not introduce any typos at this point, as the build process will otherwise fail later on.
</para>
</important>
</para>
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</section>
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