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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: feature idea - feedback wanted
From:       Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld () home ! ivm ! de>
Date:       1999-02-14 13:13:55
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On 14-Feb-99 Patrick D. Dowler wrote:
> 
> There has been recently a plethora of sys admin tools hacks* added 
> to KDE that I think need to be thought out more clearly. They seem 
> like good ideas to people with their linux of FreeBSD box at home, or 
> even with their own box on an academic or work network, where the user
> is also the admin, but the distinction between user space and root/system
> space is what makes unices work. If you blend these too much, you
> end up in an M$ kind of nightmare :-)
> 
> * the reason that I call these "hacks" is that if you install KDE in a 
> standard unix network enviromment - for use by users -  you end 
> up disabling or removing a fair number of things. I just don't think 
> such things should be appearing in the menus of normal users.

Maybe one should set the permissions of such programs to rwxr-xr--
and check in kpanel and kcontrol if the user can execute these programs
and don't display them if the user has no permissions.

Regards,

Chris

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Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld@home.ivm.de>
                   <chris@kde.org>

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