KDE administration for multiple users

[Gray, Tim]

Ok so my /etc/skel should be empty right now and I need to drop the .kde
directory in there or jsut the contents of the .kde file and then go editing
and hunting from there?

I dont care about app defaults, I just want to eliminate the user needing to
choose anything when they first log-in. I want kde to default to no
eye-candy, low-processor settings and a default theme (redmond to help fool
the whiney users) and then never ever care about my default design again.

will what is in /etc/skel force changes on the user every single time?

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Hamill [mailto:gdh at acentral.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 10:51 AM
To: kde at mail.kde.org
Subject: Re: [kde] KDE administration for multiple users


On Monday 17 May 2004 15:41, Gray, Tim wrote:
> I am evaluating KDE for use in corperate setting.  I need to know how to
> take a KDE user profile that I customized by loggin in as that user,
> changed all the settings to what I like.

I did this, but it was certainly a UNIX experience -> not 'easy' by modern 
standards - i.e. there's no "click here to make this user the default 
profile" button...

You'll need to populate /etc/skel with the .kde/ structure - and much of
this 
work is by trial and error. If you simply take an existing user's profile
and 
copy it to /etc/skel, you'll probably run into errors because some of those 
config files will contain hardcoded paths to /home/yourusername etc. but it 
should be enough to start working from. 

I worked through this by grepping for "/home" in the whole /etc/skel 
hierarchy. From there, when I want to change a default setting, I open the 
relevant app or Control Centre module, and attach "strace" to that process 
ID, watch for the kde config files which are open()'d, and then diff the 
changed.

Not a lot of fun, but predicatable and reliable.

Hope that helps :)

Gavin.
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