| Summary: | kf5 kuser | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kuser | Reporter: | Matthias <shalokshalom> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Szombathelyi György <gyurco> |
| Status: | REOPENED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kde, lemaitre.dulotus, microcris, seth, stuartksmith |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | KCM | ||
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Description
Matthias
2017-02-07 20:44:41 UTC
Does your distribution have "kde-user-manager"? The actual package name could be different, but this is the official Plasma 5 user KCM. See also https://cgit.kde.org/user-manager.git Yes, i mean one without gobjects, gtk-docs and so on? I do not understand. The Plasma user KCM does not use gobjects or GTK. I suggest to report it as a bug to your distribution. I see now that Gentoo and Fedora build it without accoutservice - so its seems to be possible, thanks a lot. (Other distros like Debian/Ubuntu build it with that) The Fedora package of plasma-user-manager actually has a runtime dependency on accountsservice, it is needed. But the bigger issue is that this does not have remotely the functionality of KUser (and neither has the linked KaOS user-kcm as far as I can see). No management of system users, no specifying home directory and login shell, no group management. So we are still forced to ship the kdelibs4 KUser in Fedora. FYI, https://github.com/lxde/lxqt-admin might be an alternative of interest to distros. Hi there! It is just to say that as simple as Kuser may seem it is of great value. Of course we can live without it because we can have the same results using the console but what can be done in 10 seconds with Kuser will take 2 or 3 minutes without it (at least for me, I always have to google for the right commands and arguments for user and groups manipulation) *** Bug 381138 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I agree Cristiano Rodrigues, I've recently come back to KDE and was surprised there isn't a basic GUI for editing users. It seems like an essential usability component for a complete desktop environment. Created attachment 169687 [details]
KCM
I dont know how its called, but I have a KCM for user management for a long time now. I upload a screenshot, and add that I assume this is standard in the systemsettings now, as I do not see a package with 'user' and 'kcm' being available. I think this is fixed. (I am using Garuda KDE, also available on NixOS and KaOS.) Yes there is a section in the System Settings but that doesn't allow viewing groups or system users like you could in older versions of KDE using KUser. NOT resolved. No actual way to modify users from System Settings of than: Name, Username, Account type, Email address. The old KUser allowed editing of Home directory, Groupmemberships (and editing of Groups themselves), and login shell. At a minimum, the ability to add a user to a group is required unless the decision has been made to move all administrative tasks to the command line. Yeah sorry, I skimmed too quickly over the last comment, my fault. Another alternative to have the needed functionality is to install Webmin on the system in question and launch it locally. I still believe it would be preferable to have the needed functionality native to Plasma 5/6 |