Hi,
I'm currently busy tweaking KDE 4.14 on CentOS 7 to my needs. I want to use it as a base for an enterprise class desktop. In my humble opinion, CentOS' default KDE configuration is not very usable, so I created a default user profile that looks more like what openSUSE looked like a few years back.
Here's the little script I'm using to install the various configuration files and stubs in the relevant places:
https://github.com/kikinovak/centos/blob/master/el7/scripts/05-installer-pro...
And here are the files that are harmed during the process: :)
https://github.com/kikinovak/centos/tree/master/el7/kde
What I did basically was to modify the panel's size, add a handful of default application launchers to the panel and to the kickoff menu, define Firefox and Thunderbird as default applications, default to double-click instead of single-click, define a set of defaults for the window manager, tweak a few things for Dolphin and Konsole, and add a nice custom wallpaper. The result is a sober-looking KDE desktop fit for use in a production environment.
One thing I can't seem to define is a default "folder view" for the desktop. Instead of the plasmoids on the desktop introduced with KDE4, I'd like my environment to behave like a "classic" desktop with folders and files on the desktop, and where a right click can - for example - create a folder. My KDE is in french, but if I remember correctly, this setup is called "Folder View" in english.
Question: how can I define this behavior as default? Which file or stub do I have to put in /etc/skel so a newly created user's KDE defaults to "Folder View"?
Cheers from the sunny South of France,
Niki
On 13.11.2016 08:46, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
One thing I can't seem to define is a default "folder view" for the desktop. Instead of the plasmoids on the desktop introduced with KDE4, I'd like my environment to behave like a "classic" desktop with folders and files on the desktop, and where a right click can - for example - create a folder. My KDE is in french, but if I remember correctly, this setup is called "Folder View" in english.
All my KDE4 desktops around here are in German (and they're on FreeBSD, but that shouldn't really matter) so the translations are not exact. Anyway, try this:
- Right-click on your desktop - Choose "Settings for Default Workspace" - From the dialog, select "Folder View" for the layout
Question: how can I define this behavior as default? Which file or stub do I have to put in /etc/skel so a newly created user's KDE defaults to "Folder View"?
After making said change in the GUI, I ran:
find ~/.kde4 -mtime -60s
to see what files have been changed within the last 60 seconds, and these two guys showed up:
~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktoprc ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
Patrick