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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: OT: My KControl modules disappeared
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-06-25 23:56:07
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On June 25, 2002 06:08 pm, Irwin K wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 June 2002 05:08 pm, Nadeem Hasan wrote:
> > Quoting Troels Tolstrup <troels@tolstrup.org>:
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> > > On Tuesday 25 June 2002 15:27, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > AFAIK only root can do this, unless you have kde installed in your
> > > > home directory or made $KDEDIR/share/applnk world writeable or some
> > > > such oddness.
>
> I did install KDE as my local user.  However, when I was working with the
> KMenu, I assumed (probably incorrectly) that the settings that would be
> affected would be in my home directory (under ~/.kde) rather than in the
> base installation directory in /usr/local/kde3.  I definitely did not go to
> /usr/local/kde3 and delete everything in the "share" directory.

you shouldn't be able to delete things in $KDEDIR as a user. i'm not sure what 
you did (perhaps ran the menueditor as root or something?) ... when you hide 
something in the kmenu it indeed gets recorded in your $KDEHOME (e.g. ~/.kde) 
and not system wide where it can affect other users.

> By the way, I killed the settings on ALL the users on my system and not
> just me.  I shouldn't be able to do that.

you had to be doing this as root then.

> It's a design flaw because it's in such an easily accessible spot that
> you're allowed and encouraged to play with (your K-Menu).  A similar

except that playing with a user's kmenu doesn't affect the system (or at least 
it shouldn't / can't with a properly installed system)

> concept would be including a single-click application in KDE that will
> delete all of the contents of your home directory, or a "friendly"
> installer program that deletes KDE applications without prompting you
> first.  No matter who you install KDE as, I don't think anything you play
> with in your menu, your panel, or any other user settings should ever,
> ever, EVER destroy the "global defaults" that are hidden.

kmenuedit is not capable of doing this when run as a user.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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