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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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