Global desktop items in Nautilus
Posted by Sayamindu 2 years, 10 months ago
One of the items in my SoC plan is support for predefined global items on the desktop. The plan is to a implement a way for the administrator to install desktop entries (.desktop files) that are used by Nautilus on user’s desktops, in addition to what users may put in their own ~/Desktop directories. There is already a feature request for this, and yesterday, Federico helped me implement a rough proposal for the implementation. Here are the mockups for the small application that would be used (both standalone, as well as from within Sabayon) for manipulating the Desktop items.
Federico tells me that KDE already has a system for defining global Desktop items – does anyone know where I can find more info on this (and figure out if we can share the same mechanism / file paths / etc) ?
In other news, after getting some very good reviews of The Namesake from my friends, (and also after coming to know that the movie moves between New York and my city 
) I decided to check out the trailer. To my pleasant surprise, Totem managed to handle the trailer at the Apple site absolutely smoothly. Wow! (In case anyone is wondering, I am using Feisty with CVS Gstreamer and I am on a 2 Mbps connection)
Hi Sayamindu,
I think the KDE feature you are looking for is called kiosk. More information can be found at http://techbase.kde.org/SysAdmin/Kiosk/Introduction
The easy way would be by having a ‘Combining’ operation that shows two folders at once. Windows does it the same way: The desktop shows the files in c:\documents and settings\all users\desktop and the files in c:\documents and settings\…\desktop .
It’s also easily scriptable, just put files in the right directory. The only bad thing is that it is so easy for installers to dump their icons on the desktop, so on windows you have tons of ‘ads’ on most peoples desktops. I don’t expect that to be a problem in the unix world though.
Oh, and it appears you have php automatic escape and are manually escaping at the same time, at least in the preview window, and are vulnerable to script injection attacks.
This looks like what you are talking about:
http://techbase.kde.org/SysAdmin/Kiosk/Keys#Authorizing_.desktop_Files
You may want to take a look at http://www.qdh.org.uk/wordpress/?p=154
these .desktop entries need a few fixes anyway. Maybe you could take a look at the bugs mentioned too