[Kde-kiosk] menu entries when using multiple profiles

[Waldo Bastian]

On Monday 02 May 2005 16:29, Thomas Schwarz wrote:
> hello list,
>
> i read the thread
>
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-kiosk&m=109420851200809&w=2
>
> and i was wondering if someone has a solution on how to merge menu files.
>
> i'm trying to implement the folowing thing:
>
> - a user belong to multiple groups
> - one of the profiles (assigned by a group) sets all the policies ecxept
> the menu enties -> no merging needed 
> - the other profiles (groups) only assign menu entires. for exampleif a user
> that belongs to the group grpOffice will see the office menu entries. if he
> also belongs to the group grpInternet he will also see the Internet folder
> in the menu. 
>
> Is there a way to implement this with kiosk at the moment?
> If not is it planed?

It wasn't possible up till recently but thanks to a recent change to the 
menu-spec it will be possible soon.

It's a matter of using the new <MergeFile type="parent"> option to include the 
parent menu definition instead of copying over the entire parent menu 
definition.

Cheers,
Waldo
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