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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: new KPanel application menu
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () max ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-07-13 10:42:51
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Christoph Neerfeld wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
See Pietro? KStandardDirs can be your friend to achieve that :)

Greetings, Stephan

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