SUMMARY

There is an option in system settings for automatic updates. However this option is only set for the current user (saved in `~/.config/PlasmaDiscoverUpdates`). I want to enable auto updates for the whole system. Users should not be able to disable auto updates by accident. I want to have this setting somewhere in for example `/etc/PlasmaDiscoverUpdates`, not writable for normal users.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable automatic updates for one user
2. Create a new user and see that automatic updates are disabled again

OBSERVED RESULT
Automatic updates do not work for new users and users can disable them by accident.

EXPECTED RESULT
Automatic updates should be a system wide setting that only administrators can change.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A possible short solution would be (pseudo code):

if (file.exists("/etc/PlasmaDiscoverUpdates")) {
// load settings from /etc/PlasmaDiscoverUpdates
} else {
// load settings from ~/.config/PlasmaDiscoverUpdates`
}

And an alternative idea, would take longer to implement:
a whole new system wide service which runs as root and performs the updates, not depending on user sessions or user settings at all.
This would also make auto updates more reliable in general, for example if users are switched often (current idle timeout never runs out), multiple users are logged in (conflicting auto updates run multiple times), and would make it work even in cases where users do not have admin privileges to perform updates, like in case of ubuntu, auto updates currently don't work at all because of this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagekit/+bug/1955489