[Kde-kiosk] how to force users to log into KDE (modify KDM menu)

[Martijn Klingens]

Oswald Buddenhagen said:
>> So please step down from your throne, grab our hands and guide us. Where
>> should the files be put instead? I can't find it, the manual just says I
>> should "shadow" the desktop files, but it doesn't mention WHERE to
>> shadow
>> them. $KDEHOME is the usual location for KDE, but that one is out for
>> KDM.
>>
> uhm, damn, this might be one of the uncommited things. it is explained
> in the file system layout, which was/is in the README and was supposed
> to go into the manual. i don't remember whether this actually happened
> ...
> there should also be a reference to the .desktop entry standard ...
> somehow it seems to have got lost ...

But... we still don't have the answer :)

And even if you commit it, it doesn't hurt in the least to quote it on
this list, also because it gets picked up by Google through the list
archives.

So...

>> and the KDM help page doesn't appear to have any Index page that I can
>> search.
>>
> i have no idea whether/that i'm supposed to create one. i'm assuming
> lauri would have told me if something important was missing. :)

Oh, you probably did it right enough for KDE. Besides, docs are rare
enough as it is, adding the requirement of indexes to the authors will
make it worse. That doesn't mean that it's the preferred situation
though...

Also, you handily avoided answering the real question, i.e. where to find
the options that populate the menu and how to turn them off.

So... :)

>> Where's a precompiled index to accompany full text searching?),
>
> well, that's what the above prompt was about. only that it is created
> on demand.

Ehm, no, a full-text index is not the same as the index that ought to ship
with a decent documentation system. The precompiled index is like the
index of a book. It also allows browsing whereas a full-text index does
not. The help files of older Windows applications are basically what I'd
like to see, recent versions of e.g. MS Office aren't as great anymore.
It's a problem of the help system though, not of KDM.

> anyway, wrong list for this topic.

Agreed :)

-- 
Martijn