On Tuesday 10 May 2005 12:00, Ben Higginbottom wrote:
On 5/10/05, Fergus Wilde
wrote: Given the advent of kiosktool in KDE, however, I thought I'd have a go with it. Using 9.3 and kde 3.4 (latest on suse ftp), I began setting up the environment for the user, but can't get the kmenu items I want to delete (nearly all of them) to go away.
Oh boy, do I know this pain :)
That's to say kiosktool runs, I select the menu, delete the items, and it appears to have worked and to have been saved by pressing the appropriate button, but when I log in as the intended user the menu is still all there. The right profile is being seen, as other alterations are present.
KDE's menu system is a complete and total mess, I wanted to change the edutainment entry to education and it took me almost a full week of work to ensure it worked for every user on they system, in the end I dumped kiosktool in favour of using menueditor, and then pulling those configs out of the local kde dir and dumping it into each users /home after manually locking it down.
Major changes to the menu systems are apparently due in V4, but for the moment you can only suffer :-)
Alternatively XFCE4 provides a very lightweigh and easily configurable enviroment including a lockdown scheme. It might be worth looking there instead.
Great, thanks Ben - probably will look elsewhere then, xfce or fvwm2 as before. Just thought I'd have a go with kiosktool first. KDE is overkill for this user anyway, I expect. Cheers Fergus
Regards,
Ben
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