Re: Easy Administration of KDE Settings? (Suggestions)
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On 2004-04-01 15:26, Ralf wrote:
> Imagine I have improved some central KDE settings (say, plain desktop
> instead of complex wall paper, say better structure in k-menu). Now, I
> want not only to have theses improved settings for any NEW user, but
> also for (a selection of) existing users (e.g. guest accounts).
>
> As for new users, for now, I can manually copy the relevant files into
> the skel directory (How about offering a script which can transfer any
> settings of a predefined user "template" into the skel folder on
> demand? Of course, this template account should only be available to
> root).
the right way to do this (at least for KDE 3.*, not sure about KDE 2.2) is
with the kde kiosk framework see the readme at
http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kdecore/README.kiosk?rev=HEAD
> As for resetting existing user settings on demand, I could imagine to
> have a group "guests" (LDAP?), and everybody in this group will be
> reset then (alternative: have their settings fixed/centralized).
delete the .kde dir (or certain files in it if you only want certain apps to
be reset), this will result in KDE using the central settings (or the
default settings if central settings are absent).
> At last, any user having messed up their settings should be able to
> reset their settings to the skel / template settings on demand. This
> could be a correspondingly labled script, I suppose.
with the KIOSK framework you would be able to prevent users from messing
with settings they shouldn't mess with (while allowing them to change
everything else)
> Now, what do you think about this suggestion? Or, tell me: is it there,
> already? :)
the infrastructure is there in the form of kde-kiosk, what we need is an
easy way to set this up. Right now you can only use the kiosk framwork by
messing with the conffiles directly (a graphical interface called kiosktool
is in the works, it's in the kdeextragear-3 cvs module).
Looking in to this further has been on my TODO for a while, I'll try to get
around to it soon.
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Bart Cornelis (aka cobaco):
Coördinator Belgisch Skolelinux team
Coördinator Nederlandse Skolelinux vertaling
Skolelinux België- http://i18n.skolelinux.no/belgium
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