Preventing drop to the desktop

Darío Mariani mariani.dario at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 14:42:32 BST 2005


  Being it read-only the user still can rename it and create a new
directory called Desktop (it has read-write permission on his home).
The only way to prevent this is using ACLs, wich we are trying to
avoid.

      Darío

On 10/18/05, Justin Denick <justin.denick at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why wouldn't you want the desktop to be read-only?
>
>
> On 10/17/05, Darío Mariani <mariani.dario at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello:
> >   I'm configuring a KDE profile using Kiosktool and manually tweaking
> > the config files. I marked the option "Lock Down Desktop Icons" so the
> > icons in the desktop are unmovable and undeletable, but I found that I
> > can drag a file from Konqueror to the desktop. Is there any way to
> > avoid dropping files on the desktop (using KDE configuration, not by
> > setting permissions or ACLs on the desktop directory). I'm using KDE
> > 3.3.0.
> >   Thanks for any help,
> >
> >              Darío
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