From kde-devel Tue Jul 13 10:17:11 1999 From: Lars Kneschke Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:17:11 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: RFC: new KPanel application menu X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93186083219136 Waldo Bastian wrote: > > Pietro Iglio wrote: > > > Note that I'm not considering any other directory layer, such > > as the "group" layer suggested by Stephan because (a) the > > implementation would be much harder and (b) more than two > > layers can be too confusing for users and administrators. > > > > Comments and criticisms will be appreciated. > > For kpanel I suggest to use for 'publishing' the > "least specific directory the user can write to". > > Example: > It he user has > KDEDIRS="/opt/kde:/usr/local/kde:/home/department/.kde:$HOME/.kde" > > Then the "most specific" directory is "$HOME/.kde" > the "least specific" directory is "/opt/kde". > > When the user has write access to /usr/local/kde, > /home/department/.kde and $HOME/.kde > publishing the application will write it to /usr/local/kde. If root is changing his Panel-Menu, he changes teh other users menu also. Maybe such persons should have a option to make the changes global or personal. I think it would be also useful to have entries that canīt be changed in the menu(write protected menu-parts). Cu -- Lars Kneschke NetUSE Kommunikationstechnologie GmbH Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel, Germany Fon: +49 431 386435 00 -- Fax: +49 431 386435 99