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
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 [$i]) that can prevent user to override global preferences.
About system services, there is a "ksysv" utility in kdeadmin, but as its name says, it is managing SYSV services, not the newer systemd...
francois
Thanks.
Hello, I did not look in details, but you can administer user's profile with kiosktool.
Or you can manually create global TDE configuration files in
/opt/trinity/share/config . The global files are exactly the same as ~/.trinity/config/. There is also a special syntax in these files (I do not remember now, something like appending [$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?
Darrell
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