Fwd: looking for KDE Dolphin Administrator Guide

[kde5 at markus-raab.org]

Hi,

27.01.19 06:10 Aleix Pol wrote:
> Forwarding to kfm list and enterprise, in case someone knows.

Thank you for the forward!

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *Chen, Jim* <Jim.Chen at phri.ca <mailto:Jim.Chen at phri.ca>>
> Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:30 PM
> Currently I'd like to add an application to a file type (such as a shell
> script *sh file) for ALL users. I have been looking for an administrator
> guide as to how to do it and I just could not find it.
> 
> Note: I know how to do it for one user (login as a regular user -> in
> Dolphin: Right click on the file -> Open with -> Other ... -> type the
> name of the application (such as 'bash') -> check 'Run in terminal' ->
> check 'Remember application association for this type of file'. )
> 
> Above is an example of what I would like to configure for every user.
> Help as to how to do it is really appreciated.  I am also looking for an
> administrator guide so that if I have other configurations for all users
> later on, I can refer to the guide(s).

As discussed last year in the ConfigWorkshop at Akademy [0,1] we plan to
improve KConfig with Elektra [2], so that actions like you would like to
do can be done easily via configuration management tools. At the moment
we are in an early preparation stage, so unfortunately we do not have
such docu as you would like to have.  If there is an enterprise on this
list, who is interested in supporting the implementation of such
functionality, please contact me.

@Jim: But what you could do now, is to track all config files with a
version control system, then configure everything via GUI, and then
apply these changes, either per copying the relevant changes to KDE's
system config or by using KDE's Kiosk mode functionality. Unfortunately,
there are several pitfalls at the moment (like unrelated stuff that also
provokes changes in config files). But for a small number of changes it
should be easily doable that way.

[0] https://community.kde.org/Akademy/2018/Config_Workshop
[1] https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/raab/akademy.pdf
[2] https://www.libelektra.org

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