[Kde-kiosk] Kiosktool: One user, multiple profiles?

[Waldo Bastian]

On Sunday 12 September 2004 13:29, Erwin Roth wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Currently, as far as I can see, one user can only use one profile
> > created by Kiosktool at a time.
> >
> > For example, if I create one profile where I edit the menu and remove
> > everything except the "Internet" folder, and another profile where
> > everything except the "Office" folder is removed, my test user only
> > gets one of the folders, even though the first profile is assigned to
> > the test user, and the test user is a member of a group that is
> > assigned to the second profile.
> >
> > The functionality I'd like is to have different profiles that can be
> > applied to one or several groups, and then each user will get the
> > combined settings of all the profiles that match based on the user's
> > group memberships.
> >
> > I don't think it's possible with kiosktool now? Will it be possible in
> > the future?
>
> It's already possible to stack profiles, however not with the Kiosktool
> GUI. You can do it by hand e.g. in the /etc/kde-user-profile file. Just
> seperate the desired profile names like this:
>
> [Users]
> user3=profile1,profile2

Unfortunately the menu-handling isn't entirely set up to handle multiple 
profiles in a meaningful way. Basically the profile with the highest priority 
will determine the menu entirely. It's not impossible to set it up 
differently but you will need to create .menu files yourself then and it's a 
bit tricky. Let me see if I can come up with a scheme for that that isn't too 
complicated.

Cheers,
Waldo
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