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how do i edit the system menu

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Tuesday, July 29th 2003, 9:53pm

how do i edit the system menu

I've got KDE 3.1 and I want to edit the default menu for all users. If I right click on the K-Menu and use the menu editor, it will make the changes for that user (or root if I'm logged in as root), but I want to make changes to the default menu (/usr/kde/3.1/share/applnk). Do I have to do that manually or is there a way to get the menu editor to edit that path?

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Tuesday, July 29th 2003, 10:28pm

I think you have to do that manually.

It might work to copy the user editied version to the global directory.

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Tuesday, July 29th 2003, 10:36pm

I figured that was the case. Was just hoping because the description for the kmenuedit application says that it can edit both the user and system menu, but if that's true I have no idea how to start it in the mode to edit the default menu.

As for editing it as a user then copying, that doesn't really work because KDE combines them, so the user applnk directory will only have differences from the original applnk directory. Already tried that. Will have to just edit the usr/kde/3.1/share/applnk directory I think.

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Saturday, August 2nd 2003, 8:36pm

Here

http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-11/kde_01.html

they describe the kiosk functionality of kde. How to create default settings and avoid user s to change these.

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