Greetings,<br>
<br>
I have reviewed the past postings again, and have discovered what may
be a big part of my problem. I am running Debian Sarge
2.6.12-1-686-smp with KDE 3.4. I see that xdg could be a
contributing factor. <br>
<br>
I see that many posts refer to a patch regarding this problem, however
with Debian I'm not sure whether it has been patched or not. Any
pointers on how to determine this?<br>
<br>
I tried the fix listed by Jasper van der Marel to remove the
kde-applications.menu file, which just decimated the start menu.
This leads me to believe that my current KDE configuration is not
correct, as it appears not to read the profiles at all. Any
pointers on fixing the configuration if it is incorrect?<br>
<br>
# echo $KDEDIRS, I get no return, is that correct?<br>
<br>
# kde-config --path xdgconf-menu<br>
/root/.config/menus/:/etc/xdg/menus/<br>
<br>
As far as being proficient at technical writing, I have no experience,
but am willing to help if I can. Anything an old wannabe can
do? As far as tutorials or setup instructions, would it not be
better if it was written by a dummy who has done it successfully and
can relay the steps in plain terms, so that other lay people can
understand? I believe I can fulfill the requirements of a
dummy.<br>
<br>
Gary<br>
<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gmail Collector</b> <<a href="mailto:bigcollector8@gmail.com">bigcollector8@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><div><span class="e" id="q_109667bdd23ce12f_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martijn Klingens</b> <<a href="mailto:klingens@kde.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
klingens@kde.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Monday 13 February 2006 10:19, Gmail Collector wrote:<br>> Yes, that does help, I guess I mainly wanted to confirm that I wasn't<br>> wasting my time trying to use unix groups in vain. I believe that my<br>> problem might be using a user profile. However I thought that by making
<br>> the group configurations immutable it would over ride the user profiles in<br>> that group.<br><br>Yes, one would expect that. It bit me in the proverbial behind too when I<br>found that out ;)<br><br>> All of the pages that I have studied have gone into details regarding the
<br>> groups within the configurations and have not mentioned the unix groups<br>> feature. The only clue that I got was from Kiosk Admin, which I have been<br>> experimenting with. So I must be looking at the wrong documents, or
<br>> misinterpreting them.<br><br>Actually, the documentation is simply incomplete. The existing docs indeed<br>talk mostly (if not exclusively) about how the Kiosk system works at the<br>KConfig level, but there is very little documentation on how the actual
<br>assignment of profiles works and how the system determines which profile to<br>apply.<br><br>(Note to anyone who is proficient at writing technical documentation: this<br>might be a nice junior job to get involved with KDE. Contributions are more
<br>than welcome :) )<br><br>--<br>Martijn<br>_______________________________________________<br>kde-kiosk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kde-kiosk@kde.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<br>
Excellent! I'm away from the server for a couple of weeks
now, but when I return I can attack with a whole new
perspective. Thanks much!!<br>
<br>
Gary<br>
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