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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: new KPanel application menu
From:       Lars Kneschke <lk () netuse ! de>
Date:       1999-07-13 10:17:11
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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
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