[Kde-kiosk] URL Restrictions conflict with Kdesktop

[Dirk Drexlin]

russell at lls.lls.com (Russell Brown) wrote on 09.05.2003 11:22:21:
>
>I'm still on my quest[1] to get a 'kiosked' desktop[2] I ran across this
>problem which seems like a bug.
>
>If one has the following in kdeglobals:
>
>[KDE URL Restrictions][$i]
>rule_count=2
>rule_1=list,,,,file,,,false
>rule_2=list,,,,file,,$HOME,true
>
>and Desktop entries in /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop (default KDEDIR
>for this system) then one gets a kdesktop error popup window saying
>"Access denied to file /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop" when kdesktop
>is first fired up.
>
>[1] - Monty Python and the Holy Grail has nothing on this one :-(
>[2] - I want the desktop to contain things from $KDEDIRS/apps/kdesktop/Desktop
>      but *not* things from $KDEHOME/Desktop
>    
>-- 
> Regards,
>     Russell
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I had the same problem. I solved it by opening this file/directory as well:
rule_3=list,,,,file,,/usr/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop,true

Greetings

Dirk