Creating a bare minimum menu FC1/KDE

Darkhalf darkhalf at pcisys.net
Thu Apr 22 03:55:06 UTC 2004


Hello all,

I need some help with FC1 specifically the way FC1 combines a system 
wide application entry with KDE menus. 

I have a friend who is setting up several FC1 machines for a local 
school.  All the machines will have the default workstation install of 
FC1.  All will be using KDE as the default desktop environment, and here 
is where we need help.  Each machine will have at a minimum two users, 
for now let's just say, "teacher" and "student".  He wants to customize 
the menu for each user.  Actually he needs to create a default menu 
template that will allow him to give less access to applications from 
the KDE menu for the student users.  He needs/wants to do this without 
editing the menu on each machine using "Edit K Menu" option from within 
KDEs Control Center.

I'm used to using Slackware and WindowMaker (no laughing out there!)  
and I don't fully understand RH/FC1/Mandrake and how/where the scripts 
for system wide application menu entries reside.  What would be the best 
way to create a template that does not use the system wide application 
menu entries, allowing him to create a custom menu for a particular 
user/group?  I looked in /etc/skel to look at the default template, but 
that seems pretty standard and doesn't help me much.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated,

Jason









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