Re: Global settings

[Peter Clark <peter-clark@bethel.edu>]

Quoting Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>:
> There are many things that are common, and that they would hardly ever 
> change, such as the name and configuration of the POP-servers in KMail. 
> I've been tweaking /etc/kde3/kmailrc but it had no appreciable effect. 
> Do these files only mean something for new accounts? In addition to 
> configure things now, I expect to need to fix things at some later 
> point, like when there is a application/ogg MIME type. OTOH, they 
> should be allowed to override my default settings if they want to.
> So, if anybody could tell me where to edit, I would be very happy, and 
> my parents would probably too! :-)

    My suggestion would be to create one account, and then make all the changes 
that you want to it (such as typing in the names of the POP servers, etc.), and 
then copying the entire .kde (and .mozilla) directory to /etc/skel/. Then, you 
can create new accounts that will be perfect replicas of the original, 
requiring only minor tweaking for individual preferences (like email address 
and the like).
    Or did I misunderstand the question?
    :Peter