Configuring plasma as a sysadmin

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday, November 14, 2011 12:43:00 Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Is there not a simple way to just copy files from .kde/share/config into
> /etc/kde for new users? Could not plasma look for these files rather than
> using Javascript? If not, could there be a way to translate the current
> panel into Javascript commands?

i would suggesting taking a look at the default panel layout that ships with 
Plasma Desktop, which you will find in `kde4-config`/share/apps/plasma/layout-
templates/org.kde.plasma-desktop.defaultPanel/ .. it's quite straight forward 
to add widgets to the panel in whichever order you wish, setting configuration 
and doing so dynamically even based on screen size, etc.

you can do the same for the desktop as well, as can be seen in the default 
layout which can be found in `kde4-config`/share/apps/plasma-desktop/init/. 
you may notice that it handles multiscreen setups gracefully as well.

as you didn't give a concrete description of what you wanted to achieve, i 
can't offer you more than that, but the documentation is fairly comprehensive 
and you can find examples here:

https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeexamples/repository/revisions/master/show/plasma/javascript/plasma-
shell-scripting

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