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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Running startkde from inside kde
From:       Sarang Lakare <sarang () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2002-05-29 23:01:23
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Hello,

Running startkde from inside KDE immediately logs the user out and kdm goes 
back to the login screen. 

Who would do this? Well, this is what happened. My dad started using KDE 
recently (He is completely new to computers and I have set him up with KDE. 
He uses kmail and konqueror exclusively). He got an email with some 
attachment.. When he clicked on the attachment, he was prompted with the 
usual question of "Open With..". He clicked on that and then he started 
typing "star". Since he knows I have installed start office and that start 
office can open all his attachments. Now when he typed "star", the first 
thing up there was "startkde" which he thought was a KDE office suite like 
staroffice and so he selected that. He obviously missed the "t", but thats 
not the point. Immediately after he selected startkde, he got logged out and 
was taken to the login screen!

This IMHO should be avoided somehow. Any new user or even experienced user 
might run accross this. My dad's first reaction was "the mail probably had 
virus and it crashed the machine". Upon investigation I found the above!

Anyone got any ideas for this? I suggest that we remove all such problamatic 
commands from the "Open With" drop down selection.

Regards,
Sarang

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