Writing to plasma-desktop-appletsrc with init scripts.

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Chris Topel <ctopel at advocap.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm having a bit of an issue trying to make something work in my
> environment.
>
> Basically, I want widgets to be disabled by default. But if a user chooses
> to do so, they can unlock the widgets and make their changes. Then, on
> logout, the widget will automatically be locked again for them so they don't
> accidentally remove it the next day.
>
> So to do that I'd like to use init scripts
> (/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop/init/00-defaultLayout.js) to pass
> something directly into plasma-desktop-appletsrc when a user first logs in.
>
> Specifically, I want to add this to the bottom of the file:
>
> [General]
> immutability[$i]=2
>
> This will lock widgets by default but will allow the users to unlock it
> (immutability=1) temporarily to add/move widgets. Then the next time they
> log back in it will be locked (immutability=2) again for them.
>
> So, is there some way I can easily easily set immutability[$i]=2 under the
> [General] section of plasma-desktop-appletsrc?
>
> Thanks in advance!

Shouldn't it be the same making the containment itself immutable?

Aleix