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Subject:    OT: Fwd: Re: Lost all KControl modules
From:       Irwin K <emerald-arcana () rogers ! com>
Date:       2002-06-28 3:03:18
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This is of off-topic interest to those who've been following the thread about 
KControl modules.

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Subject: Re: Lost all KControl modules
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:47:52 -0700
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
To: kde-devel@kde.org

On Wednesday 26 June 2002 09:49 pm, Irwin K wrote:
> 1) How can I fix this, short of reinstalling?  (I'm recompiling right now,
> but it's taking time, and I'd like to know a workaround in case I run into
> this again.).

Reinstall :-]

> 2) Why is this allowed?  I don't think that anything that anyone does as a
> local user to the KMenu (as user, as root, or otherwise) should be able to
> affect the "global KDE settings".

I did some investigation and it seems that if you have write access to the
"global KDE settings", KMenu makes the changes there instead of in your
homedirectory.

Feel free to submit a bugreport on kmenuedit if you think it shouldn't :-]

Cheers,
Waldo
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