Default Ubuntu applications

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Thu Mar 4 00:19:03 GMT 2010


On Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:21 PM, David Sanders wrote:
>> GNOME and KDE4 have nothing near what you can get with KDE3 + kiosktool.
>> If someone ports kiosktool over the KDE4, then it will just be GNOME
>> left that cannot give users a different desktop based on their group.
>> Couple of scripts and get something similar in GNOME? Right.
>
> If you're talking about setting up desktop shortcuts and menus, why
> couldn't this be done with a script? Well, to answer my own question
> it *can* be done with a script. Just copy out the relevant desktop
> folder based on the users group, how would that be hard to do? If
> we're talking GUI group-policy editing a la Windows  then no it
> doesn't exist, but scripts are easier IMO for any *nix admin worth
> their salt. Another point being that GP from Windows was what KDE up
> until KDE4 tried so tireless to copy, for nebulous reasons best known
> to people who think the Windows GUI paradigm is anything other than a
> totally illogical mess. I'm glad that Gnome threw the baby out with
> the bathwater and tried again.
>

Well, I did make use of lock down features too. I have not looked 
because nobody ever argued that Gconf was anywhere near what was 
possible with kiosktool and KIOSK. For your information, KIOSK is well 
and alive in KDE4 so I do not know what you are talking about when you 
say 'Another point being that GP from Windows was what KDE up until KDE4 
tried so tireless to copy' since kiosktool was never a core part of KDE 
anyway.



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