-----Original Message----- From: Chris Howells [SMTP:chrish@gmx.co.uk] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:25 PM To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Hi all
May I ask what kind of work? What I'd really love is for somebody to make it possible to restrict the things that are possible in KDE -- for example so that a school could use it on the desktop without the kids fiddling with all the settings.
I did notice however something that Waldo put on:
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.0-release-plan.html
about preventing users changing the wallpaper, and stuff. [Simon Wood]
Can't this be done by sym-linking the appropriate parts of '.kde' to a non writable master copy. I though I'd limit my users (my wife) in this fashion but see told me not to....
The problem is you can need to think quite hard about exactly what you link. IMHO it's a design defficency quite a bit of software (not just KDE) has, apparently copied from Windows. Which is to make everything only end user configurable. Which is a pain where not only don't you want the end user configuring things they wouldn't have the first clue anyway. (I find web browser settings an especial annoyance.)
You could also limit access to the config application. Ah the power of the UID....
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