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Re: Desktop setup (WAS Re: choosing software applications)



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On 03-03-2005 16:20, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> On Thursday 03 March 2005 15:35, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 03 Mar 2005, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
>>I think all three of us are saying the same thing here.  This is not a
>>nice solution.  The only thing I can recall that might be a simple (if
>>inelegant) approach to this involves kschoolmenu where a certain unix
>>group (eg teachers) can have it's menu contents defined.  One could
>>encourage people to use certain software by that means.  However, the KDE
>>toolbar and desktop are not included by that.
> 
> Not a problem anything you can configure in KDE, whe _can_ change on a 
> conditional basis (as in this one for teachers and that one for students).  
>   Note: We do currently hardcode which setup is activated when
>     though desktop-profiles gives you a standard mechanism for controlling
>                   that dynamically
> 
> In fact we currently have 3 profiles (or rather we do in the cvs-version of 
> debian-edu-config)
> - common -> configuration that is set for all Skoleinux machines
> - networked-kde2 -> networksettings for kde2
> - networked-kde3 -> networksettings for kde3
> (the src/debian-edu-config/README file in svn on alioth contains an overview 
> of exactly what settings are in there)
> 
> I'll be glad to add further profiles student, teacher, administrator .... or 
> whatever else people come up with.  I'm not sure what that setup should be 
> though.

Are you saying that if both teacher and student profiles are installed
on same machine, it is somehow possible to choose per login or per
session which profile to use?

I think "diskless server", not only "laptop used by a single person"...


 - Jonas

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