Hi,
I am trying to configure some default settings to be able to deploy KDE. I am doing my tests with Debian “hopefully-soon-stable” 12 (Plasma 5.27.2). I follow the kiosk mode documentation, and it works properly for some settings (night color, baloo search, power management, Discover).
However, I have very strange results when trying to configure the bottom panel:
- From a new user with default settings, I customize the panel (changing some applications shortcuts, disabling clipboard)
- Using
fswatch, I could determine that the relevant configuration file is~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc - If I copy this file to
/etc/xdg/, my settings are not applied to new users (while it works for other files likekscreenlockerrc) - As a workaround, if I copy this file to
/etc/skel/.config/, settings are applied to new users BUT the panel gets a height of 30 instead of 44 (the default).
Also, a somewhat similar issue is for configuring Dolphin (toolbar, left panel, right panel, detailed view by default):
- I found that the relevant files is
~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/dolphin/dolphinui.rc(strangely/etc/dolphinrcdoes not seem to contain the settings I am interested in) - If I copy this file to
/etc/xdg/dolphinui.rc, my settings are not applied for new users - After copying this file to
/etc/skel/.local/share/kxmlgui5/dolphin/dolphinui.rc, settings are indeed applied to new users except “overview in right panel” and “detailed view by default”
What am I doing wrong? I suppose I missed something from the documentation, but could not find what. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Yvan