Re: Feasibility of KDE application

2018-08-15 Thread Anders Gade
hi Johannes and thank you for your thoughts. The root privilege needed was in the import part where programs might have to be installed, but that isn't the focus initially. *Using appstream files *sounds like a great idea, but wouldn't this need to be accepted as a standard (first or down the li

Re: Feasibility of KDE application

2018-08-15 Thread kde
Hi, As Johannes already pointed out we had a Config Workshop, maybe the updated slides help you a bit: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/raab/akademy.pdf 2018-08-14 um 22:11 Anders Gade wrote: > I'm contemplating building an export tool for Plasma 5 configurations > based on config files on an ex

Re: Feasibility of KDE application

2018-08-15 Thread Johannes Zarl-Zierl
Hi Ade, (Sorry for top-posting I'm typing on the phone) From a user perspective: yes, we definitely should have something like this. There should not be a need for root privileges, though. As for getting information about which config file to use: maybe we could add that information to the app