From kde-devel Tue Jul 13 10:41:49 1999 From: Christoph Neerfeld Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:41:49 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: RE: RFC: new KPanel application menu X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93186285920707 On 13-Jul-99 Pietro Iglio wrote: > I'm thinking about an alternative way to generate the application menu in > kpanel. The idea is to unify the global and personal menus and to allow > full user customization. > > Here are the requirements: > > - there is a single application menu (no personal/global); > > - the user can completely customize his/her menu without any extra privilege; > by customizing I mean: it is possible to change item properties (icon, > name, etc.), move an item, delete an item, add a new item, create/remove > folders; > > - privileged users (= user with write access in $KDEDIR/share/applnk) can > publish items; published items will be visible in all users menu; I'd like to add these requirements: - posibility to reset an entry to its system default value - make an entry readonly; what I hate most in Win is that there is no way to protect the system from being destroyed by dumb users - don't change the global settings from within kpanel as root; maybe this is a task for a rewritten kmenuedit wish: - different system default menus for different users; this does not need many changes to kpanel; just some way to tell kpanel where to look for the default menu Regards, Chris --------------------------------------------------- Christoph Neerfeld or