Hi,

Since this is my first post in this forum, let me introduce myself. I'm a 49 year old Austrian living in a small village in South France, and I'm the manager of Microlinux (http://www.microlinux.fr), a small Linux-based company. I've been using KDE regularly since versions 2.x around 2001.

Currently I'm busy tweaking KDE 4.14 on CentOS 7 to my needs. I want to use it as a base for an enterprise class desktop, what with the long term support until 2024. In my humble opinion, CentOS' default KDE configuration is not very usable, so I created a default user profile that looks more like what openSUSE looked like a few years back.

Here's the little script I'm using to install the various configuration files and stubs in the relevant places:

https://github.com/kikinovak/centos/blo ... -profil.sh

And here are the files that are harmed during the process:

https://github.com/kikinovak/centos/tree/master/el7/kde

What I did basically was to modify the panel's size, add a handful of default application launchers to the panel and to the kickoff menu, define Firefox and Thunderbird as default applications, default to double-click instead of single-click, define a set of defaults for the window manager, tweak a few things for Dolphin and Konsole, and add a nice custom wallpaper. The result is a sober-looking KDE desktop fit for use in a production environment like schools, SMBs, public libraries, etc.

One thing I can't seem to define is a default "folder view" for the desktop. Instead of the plasmoids on the desktop introduced with KDE4, I'd like my environment to behave like a "classic" desktop with folders and files on the desktop, and where a right click can - for example - create a folder. My KDE is in french, but if I remember correctly, this setup is called "Folder View" in english.

Question: how can I define this behavior as default? Which file or stub do I have to put in /etc/skel so a newly created user's KDE defaults to "Folder View"?

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki