> Hi guys,
> I've looked in many places and still can't find exactly what I'm
> looking for. I'm finally at the point where I'm ready to create my
> default user's profile for KDE. Doing as I did before in KDE3.5
> doesn't work very well at all. I know that Jman has done this and I
> was hoping he could share what is being done.

> What I've done so far is create a "temp" user and create that user's
> profile the way that it needs to be as the default. I then (as root)
> copied the entire contents of the "temp" profile to /etc/skel and
> changed the permissions/ownership except for the /home/temp/.kde4
> contents. In this folder I greped any user specific data and TRIED to
> use a macro/variable for the user's home, such as "$HOME or
> "~"...neither seem to work. So although most of the profile looks ok
> some of the user specifics are pointing at the "temp " user and not
> the current user. I managed to fix some user specific items. For
> example the menu's (kickoff) Computer category has a place named
> "Home" it it actually is the recently created user's Home...how ever
> there is a panel icon for home as well and that's still points to the
> "temp" user's home instead of the current user.

> I think the whole problem stems around the fact that KDE wants to
> place (and overwrite) the existing /etc/skel.kde4 configuration
> directory. Is there a way (maybe in the init files) to disable KDE
> taking a copy of the config files (from /usr/share/config) and moving
> it to the new users profile/home when a new user is created?

> I've looked on kde with different search terms but really can't seem
> to find exactly what I need.
> I've also looked at my notes from KDE.3.5 with dolphin as our file
> manager but things have changed so much that it's almost useless.

> Thanks guys,
> Chris

> > Hi guys,
> > I've looked in many places and still can't find exactly what I'm
> > looking for. I'm finally at the point where I'm ready to create my
> > default user's profile for KDE. Doing as I did before in KDE3.5
> > doesn't work very well at all. I know that Jman has done this and I
> > was hoping he could share what is being done.

> > What I've done so far is create a "temp" user and create that user's
> > profile the way that it needs to be as the default. I then (as root)
> > copied the entire contents of the "temp" profile to /etc/skel and
> > changed the permissions/ownership except for the /home/temp/.kde4
> > contents. In this folder I greped any user specific data and TRIED to
> > use a macro/variable for the user's home, such as "$HOME or
> > "~"...neither seem to work. So although most of the profile looks ok
> > some of the user specifics are pointing at the "temp " user and not
> > the current user. I managed to fix some user specific items. For
> > example the menu's (kickoff) Computer category has a place named
> > "Home" it it actually is the recently created user's Home...how ever
> > there is a panel icon for home as well and that's still points to the
> > "temp" user's home instead of the current user.

> > I think the whole problem stems around the fact that KDE wants to
> > place (and overwrite) the existing /etc/skel.kde4 configuration
> > directory. Is there a way (maybe in the init files) to disable KDE
> > taking a copy of the config files (from /usr/share/config) and moving
> > it to the new users profile/home when a new user is created?

> > I've looked on kde with different search terms but really can't seem
> > to find exactly what I need.
> > I've also looked at my notes from KDE.3.5 with dolphin as our file
> > manager but things have changed so much that it's almost useless.

> > Thanks guys,
> > Chris

> I think we've been over this, if not I'm sorry but I'm pretty sure I
> have told this too multiple people.

> http://groups.google.com/group/ul-developers/msg/fbab7bb4fa9038d3?

> You're making this way too hard. KDE doesn't use the .skel folder,
> .skel should not be used for any DE as anything that gets placed in
> the .skel folder will not get updated with the DE, that's bad, or
> unistnalled if the DE gets uninstalled, that's bad too. For KDE the
> default files that get copied over to a new users folder is found in
> /etc/kde4/  as etc is the default folder for system configuration
> files. Also a lot is now done by scripting in the initial first time
> user script is in /usr/share/kde4/env/ to setup the default
> environment is in /usr/share/apps/plasma and
> /usr/share/apps/plasma-deskop eventually the goal is to have
> everything done by Javascript and bash scripts. If you look at the
> spec for the kdebase4-Unity package in SVN it will tell you where the
> files are being installed.

> Jeremiah