[Kde-kiosk] Classroom control

[Waldo Bastian]

On Friday 24 January 2003 16:22, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
> Making progress, many thanks for your comments, the $KDEDIRS seem very
> powerful, but the StarOffice icons remain very reluctant to appear - they
> appear in some cases and not in others, and I am trying to work out why.
> On our system they seem to be buried very deep - guess where - in
>
> /usr/local/staroffice6.0/share/kde/net/mimelnk/share/icons/
>
> eg
>
> /usr/local/staroffice6.0/share/kde/net/mimelnk/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/ap
>ps/00 1_star_butterfly.xpm
>
> and similar parallel directories

It surprise me that they appear at all then. Doesn't staroffice require some 
per-user installation step? Maybe it copies them to somewhere under ~/.kde 
during that step?

> > Hmm. remarkable. Does it matter if you set $KDEDIRS to include /usr/local
> > as well? (Note that the order matters)
>
> What should the separator be between different paths in $KDEDIRS? Colon?

Yes.

> >> b) User kdelock1 can't drag things around the kicker bar, but can add
> >>    and remove them.
>
> Still a problem - I am sure it was possible two days ago - is there
> something obvious that controls this? I note there are a lot of fractional
> FreeSpaces there - e.g. FreeSpace=0.315175 - whereas in vanilla kickerrc
> files the FreeSpace seems to be always 0 or 1.

Can you drag to the desktop or can't you drag at all?

Cheers,
Waldo
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