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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: feature idea: more personalisation by desktop profiles
From:       Jono Bacon <jonobacon_lists () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-02-11 10:24:41
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On Monday 11 February 2002 10:16 am, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while re-tuning my kde3 desktop with a fresh .kde directory I had an idea
> which might also be interesting to other people.
>
> What about allowing several desktop profiles, such as themes, but much more
> flexible. KDE could allow the user to configure several KDE setups (like
> having several .kde directories). If more than one profile is given, KDE
> asks at startup which profile to use. This way I could have on my laptop
> some kind of business setup for official use and some private setup with
> fancy pictures, but still with the same home dir.
> Right now I can only achieve this by moving .kde dirs around and/or
> changing the KDEHOME variable in the startup skripts.

I think this is a *great idea*. I certainly have a use for this as I have to 
use KDE in a business, PR and personal setting. If I could tune it on the 
setting it would be great.

I suspect someone is going to ask for a patch for this though...I am a bit 
busy at the moment though.

	Jono



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