From kde-devel  Tue Jul 13 11:47:20 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () max ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:47:20 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: new KPanel application menu
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93186715024264

Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> Christoph Neerfeld wrote:
> > 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
> 
> The approach I outlined with KDEDIRS will give you this. You need
> to add a directory to KDEDIRS which contains additional settings
> for this user. Depending on the user you can add different
> directories.
> 
> This is not restricted to kpanel only, ALL applications and ALL
> settings will take advantageous of this.
> 
> (E.g. you can provide groups of users different default styles,
> different default colors, different default icons and even
> different levels for ksnake).

Well, but you can only define extra dirs for applnk only.
Just put 
[Directories]
dir_apps=... 
in your personal config :)

But I'm afraid, these directories are read indepently from the 
$KDEDIRS prefixes, so it just adds something. But for example
could a Linux distribution add the path to their generated 
kdelnk files that way.

Greetings, Stephan

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