how to customize Desktop widget (Plasma) with batch request

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 2:28 PM An Liu <sourceonly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, List
>
> Here is how we play with desktop environment:
> We used to startup traditional desktop via
>        a) vncserver with noxstartup on :N as X server
>        b) setting up user environment (e.g, copy application.desktop template to ~/Desktop, per-user based, but administrators knows ), usually done by automatic shell scripts
>        c) startkde on :N
>        d) send VNC info (e.g, ip,port, auth-token) to user
>        e) destroy VNC server when user finishes
>
> through this way we could get every user with their requirement
>
> However, this process still works except we are not have b) by default, except that we can't have FolderView desktop by default.
>
> For a single user of course it's not a big case, as one can easily drag-and-drop customize the desktop once and for all, the pity is for us as administrators we can hardly figure out a batch way to do it for the users.
>
> Is there any way to do alternative way to b) in plasma?
> e.g create a FolderView widget configuration or the user before the kde desktop is ready OR after the desktop is read, then we add it to the very desktop. as I mentioned we want to do it in a batch way.
>
> Any reference / Suggestion is welcome, or simply we switched to a better process?
>
> Definitely we don't want to switch back to FVWM/Xfce, as users feels more comfortable in KDE plasma.
>
>
> --
> Liu An

Including the Plasma development mailing list in case somebody there
has an idea.

Good luck!
Aleix