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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Some KMenu thoughts
From: m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date: 2002-02-02 12:38:13
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Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> From time to time i get emails saying that there is no way to change root
> links in Kicker. This is true so far.
>
> So we have to thinks about this. It would be the best if any user (not only
> root) can change the look of his desktop. Perhapps he also doesn't want all
> those links in the KMenu because there are some wich he will never use. There
> comes the problem. There is no way to get them out of the Menu because they
> are stored in $KDEDIR/share/applnk wich is normally onyl accessable by root.
> He can only change and remove those items wich he has created by himself.
>
> I think we should handle this. A possible solution would be that when the user
> starts KDE first time the whole linktree would be copied to
> $HOME/.kde/share/applnk and kicker would take his informations only from
> there. The user would be free then to make everything. An other approach
> would be create special files in the Home dir to tell kicker not to show a
> specific link. E.g. for $KDEDIR/share/applnk/System/kwuftpd.desktop there
> would be a $HOME/.kde/share/applnk/System/kwuftpd.hide or something like
> that.
>
> Asking for pros and contras and general comments :-).
What happened to the "masking" feature I added to kmenuedit in Trysil?
IIRC removing global menu entries used to work by having a copy of the
.desktop file in the users local menu structure with some kind of
"removed" attribute.
Making a copy of the whole menu structure on first login is a bad idea
because it makes global admin changes (adding applications etc.)
impossible. Storing user changes only in the local menu structure is the
way to go.
Greetings,
Matthias
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