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Hi,

just to pick up some more suggestions and ideas - one thing that bugs most=
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people is that they think KDE is one big chunk of stuff, AKA bloatware. Whi=
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most of this behavior depends on our defaults in startkde, I think it would=
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be good to offer people an editor where they can choose which programs to=20
start at kde startup. Of course, that would require reading in a=20
user-dependent startkde file if it exists, otherwise use the system default.

That way admins of large installations can determine the KDE startup a lot=
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better and can even replace the windowmanager easier (you could do that wit=
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a combo box which one to choose for instance). I found out that many admins=
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don't know how KDE is started and that it is way easier than they think it=
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works to change KDE's startup; on the other hand users are very picky as we=
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if they don't want to change system wide files but just make their own=20
startup of KDE.

Seen from that perspective, the startkde script is a really outdated system=
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where we should think of something that is easy to customize even for mom a=
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dad as well as the sysadmins that have to do their settings, maybe even ove=
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ldap.

Any suggestions, ideas ?

Ralf
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Ralf Nolden
nolden@kde.org

The K Desktop Environment       The KDevelop Project
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