27 Jun
2012
27 Jun
'12
12:49 p.m.
I found the following article interesting:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-admin-gnome/index.html?ca…
Trinity does most of this. I was thinking we could write a similar article for our
community wiki.
Questions:
* How to set default file manager (konqueror) viewing preferences for all users? (Figure
4). The author did not imply setting such default options globally for all users was
possible in GNOME, I'm just asking whether that is possible in Trinity.
* Does Trinity provide a GUI tool to manage system services (not Trinity services)?
Darrell
27 Jun
27 Jun
1:19 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Systems administrators: Administer Linux with Trinity desktop tools
Le 27/06/2012 21:49, Darrell Anderson a écrit :
I found the following article interesting:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-admin-gnome/index.html?ca…
Trinity does most of this. I was thinking we could write a similar article for our
community wiki.
Questions:
* How to set default file manager (konqueror) viewing preferences for all users? (Figure
4). The author did not imply setting such default options globally for all users was
possible in GNOME, I'm just asking whether that is possible in Trinity.
* Does Trinity provide a GUI tool to manage system services (not Trinity services)?
Darrell
Hello, I did not look in details, but you can administer user's profile
with kiosktool.
Or you can manually create global TDE configuration files in
/opt/trinity/share/config .
The global files are exactly the same as ~/.trinity/config/.
There is also a special syntax in these files (I do not remember now,
something like appending [$i]) that can prevent user to override global
preferences.
About system services, there is a "ksysv" utility in kdeadmin, but as
its name says, it is managing SYSV services, not the newer systemd...
francois
1:33 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Systems administrators: Administer Linux with Trinity desktop tools
Thanks.
Hello, I did not look in details, but you can
administer
user's profile with kiosktool.
Or you can manually create global TDE configuration files in
/opt/trinity/share/config .
The global files are exactly the same as ~/.trinity/config/.
There is also a special syntax in these files (I do not
remember now, something like appending [$i]) that can prevent user to
override global preferences.
I have not looked at kiosktool. I have manually edited some of the related settings when I
built my home theater PC, to "lock" and prevent anybody from tinkering with the
desktop.
I believe the [$i] appendage to a config file key is for "immutable," through
which the system then will not override.
Okay, in summary then, Trinity provides a way to globally configure a significant amount
of configurations for all users, immutable or merely initial defaults, although the app
name kiosktool is not intuitively obvious to everybody. :-) The app name makes sense with
a little reflection, but I wonder whether a different name might help.
About system services, there is a "ksysv"
utility in
kdeadmin, but as its name says, it is managing SYSV services, not the newer
systemd...
Ah, yes, I remember. The tool also does not address BSD style init scripts. :-(
Both Slackware and Arch use BSD style init scripts. I know of one similar tool that exists
for Slackware but uses Python and GTK. I wonder how much work would be involved to convert
that tool to TQt3 and to support both Slackware and Arch?
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