On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 17:16, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dotan, while writing the above, I thought of another angle, as well.
> Perhaps part of the problem for your seniors is kde's session management.
> If they quit kde with several app instances running and kde restarts them
> when it comes back up, but they don't understand that, they may be
> starting a new instance each time, not thinking that kde might have
> remembered what was running the last time and restarted it, so the
> instances gradually build up...
>
> Of course, you can make kde start with a clean session each time, if you
> wish. ÂThat would cure that issue.
>
For my mother in law I know that it starts a new session each time.
For the other I'm not sure, but I will check it.
> But what about going about it from the other angle? ÂHave kde start all
> the apps they need, then save that as their session, and hide the
> launcher, so all they have is the taskbar. ÂYou could take the close
> button off the title bar too, making it more difficult to close the apps,
> and if they did, they'd only have to restart kde to have the pre-set
> session come back with all their apps.
>
That's actually not a bad idea! I already run a fix-kde script when
they log into to reset the damage that they've done to the panel the
last time:
#!/bin/bash
kbuildsycoca4
kquitapp plasma-desktop
cp $HOME/.bin/kde-fix/plasma-desktoprc $HOME/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc
cp $HOME/.bin/kde-fix/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
$HOME/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
kstart plasma-desktop
Adding the apps that I know they use (and I know all the apps that
they use) would be trivial. Thanks, that is a terrific solution!
> It may or may not work in practice, but it's certainly thinking about the
> problem from "outside the box". ÂReverse the problem and it goes away. =:^)
>
I will try it and we'll see in a few weeks if it helps. Thanks!
--
Dotan Cohen
http://gibberish.co.il
http://what-is-what.com
___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
