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zeevik

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Wednesday, July 18th 2007, 7:57pm

KDE configuration

Is it possible to configure the KDE behaviour (menus, taskbar, shortcuts, ... etc) by modifying a configuration file ?
If so, which file has to be modified ?

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Tuesday, July 24th 2007, 10:00pm

RE: KDE configuration

It highly depends on what you want to change exactly.

Every KDE app stores it's configuration in ~/.kde/share/config . There are command line interfaces to these files, called kreadconfig and kwriteconfig.

But make sure that the application you want to tweak is not running while modifying it, otherwise chances are quite high your changes will be overwritten.
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Wednesday, July 25th 2007, 6:41am

Thanks for the reply.

I don't want to tweak the application, but to change the application users' environment.
The application will be activated by users from different user groups (end-users, testers, and developers).
1. The end-users' KDE environment must be as limited as possible, i.e.
no taskbar, no menus, no shortcuts, ..., nothing except the
application.
All the normal user's activatity has to be completely disabled.
2. The testers KDE environment must be limited to the preliminary defined options, but still such a user can start Xterm and etc.
3. There are no limitations for the developers.

The problem is, how to configure all this using the configuration files, without the necessesity to separately re-configure every end-user/tester.

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Wednesday, July 25th 2007, 7:06pm

Perhaps KIOSK is what you are looking for then.
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Wednesday, July 25th 2007, 8:30pm

I've dowloaded the Kiosktool and asked one of our system guys to checkit-out, since I don't have the time to do it myself :).
But as you may know, the system guys have their own priorities ... :)

Thanks anyway.