From kde-devel  Wed Feb 13 22:34:10 2002
From: aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () gmx ! net>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:34:10 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: feature idea: more personalisation by desktop profiles
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On Monday 11 February 2002 11:24, Jono Bacon wrote:
> 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
>

Well, you could already set $KDEHOME to different directories.
This works also good when using KDE over VNC.

Bye
Alex
 
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