Experiences with KDE-CVS at LinuxWorldExpo

[Eva Brucherseifer]

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> Op zondag 3 november 2002 12:59, schreef Marcus Camen:
> > > > * KDE needs utilities which make it easy for an administrator to
> > > >    configure, roll out and run 1000 user desktops (a "lost"
> > > > configuration must be restored within a minute or less).
> > >
> > > Using normal unix tools this is easy to achieve, but there are no KDE
> > > frontends that I'm aware of available yet.
> >
> > We do not want a KDE tool to configure only KDE. A tool to achieve this
> > has to support also non KDE applications. As you mentioned one can
> > accomplish all this stuff with standard UNIX tools. No need for KDE to
> > reinvent the wheel.
>
> Perhaps this is what you're looking for, QT/XML based?
> http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/8.1/html/index.html

Suse's new autoinstall system is great, but only works for the initial 
installation of a system. What we are talking here about is rather the 
continuous maintanance of user configurations and program setup, preferably 
stored in a database (ldap is actually not the right system for that). For 
these systems you usually have so called push and pull configuration. The 
first one changes the configuration on the users system immidiately the other 
one e.g. at startup of the users desktop.

If there are already existing unix tools they definitly should be used, but we 
need some kind of howto/talks/presentations how that works for KDE. Also 
graphical frontends to ease configuration are needed.

Greetings,
eva 
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