[dot] KDE Configuration Tamers

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1089280635/

From: Zack Rusin <zack at kde.org>
Dept: three-apps-to-them-all
Date: Thursday 08/Jul/2004, @11:57

KDE Configuration Tamers
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   KDE is known to be remarkably configurable. Unfortunately up till now
there was no GUI application exposing that. The problem got more evident
with the coming of the wonderful  KConfig XT
[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kconfigxt/kconfigxt.html]
framework. Developers and administrators
[http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/] wanted to have nice graphical tools
to edit and create configurations. KDE developers listened. We introduce
three applications which let administrators and developers take full
control over their desktops.

     Kiosk Admin Tool [http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool.php] - A
Point & Click tool for system administrators to enable KDE's KIOSK
features
[http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kdecore/README.kiosk?rev=KDE_3_2_BRANCH&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup]
or otherwise preconfigure KDE for groups of users.

     KConfigEditor [http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kconfigeditor.php] -
First preview release of a desktop configurator. Note that this is a
preview release and while the version released along KDE 3.3 will
support editting of GNOME configuration and exporting changes as
KJSEmbed scripts - this version doesn't.

     KCfgCreator [http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kcfgcreator.php] -
Application which should be used by developers to create configurations
for their applications. It can be used to migrate older applications to
KConfig XT. It allows developers to use KConfig XT without knowing
anything about it.

     Please note that during KDE Community World Summit 2004
[http://conference2004.kde.org/] prominent KDE hackers Waldo Bastian and
David Faure will give a one day tutorial
[http://conference2004.kde.org/tut-kiosk.php] about mass administration
of KDE Desktop Workstations.