Bug 486269

Summary: enterprise deployment Make a market for panel layout and configuration with dolphin and other configurations kiosk
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: myusualnickname <myusualnickname>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description myusualnickname@gmail.com 2024-04-28 21:09:20 UTC 
I install a lot of computers with KDE/Kubuntu
I have to change many settings/selecting alternatives/ positioning panels, configuring views for dolphin, 
setting up quicklaunch with shortcuts to websites
changing settings to make the session start clean on reboot so people can clear errors by restarting.

Basically, I'm hoping to help build a packaging for /etc/skel, adjusting many settings all at once for many users on a system that is already deployed, and 

I know KDE has immutable settings for some settings, ability to set default settings, and such, but managing them is hard because of binary blobs in the /home/user/.config/kde and not being able to just copy it to /etc/skel as expected, editing config files is not fun to do repeatedly, and I would like users to be able to select from multiple refined and considered configurations, but mine to be the default on systems that I deploy.

I imagine the tool to be able to change their own users settings for themselves, but a sysadmin being able to run a command line command to apply a package to skel, and possibly set immutable settings.

This is also a key component for running kiosks, as I need to lock down many things for kiosks, so I imagine someone to be able to manage kiosk users from this tool.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-08-09 21:09:01 UTC 
It sounds like you just came up with the idea for Global Themes! The feature can do all that and more. Just build a global theme with this stuff, install it on people's systems, and apply it. You could even distribute it via store.kde.org so you could download it right onto people's machines immediately when you're setting them up.

See https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/#global-theme
Comment 2 myusualnickname@gmail.com 2024-12-19 04:46:49 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
This is all stuff I have seen, but it appears to be highly error prone.

I need to be able to take the one I already have and save it in a shareable way.


> It sounds like you just came up with the idea for Global Themes! The feature
> can do all that and more. Just build a global theme with this stuff, install
> 
> See https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/#global-theme