=Description=
In my opinion, KDE Software needs better tools for system adminisrators. Currently, it takes some time to learn where exactly KDE program saves its settings and figure out, how to apply them on another machine. Also remote desktop maintainance can be improved.
Some questions to help you:
* What do you want to improve/change/...?
1. Some specific location (or even registry), where administrator can find important settings. Currently, config files are placed in various subfolders of user home directory (e.g., ~/.kde, ~/.config/KDE/, ~/.config/kde.org/ , ~/.config/kdedefaults/, ~/.config/plasma-workspace/, ~/.config). There is already a bug report for this - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422529
2. A good way to automatically apply and test settings
After finding where settings, admin naturally wants to test if they really can be applied on a "clean" system. But that needs some knowledge for various KDE programs. For example, with KWin, there's relatively simple documented way to apply tweak "Show Alt+Tab popup as fast as possible":
```
kwriteconfig5 --file ~/.config/kwinrc --group TabBox --key DelayTime 0
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure
```
But there's no similar way to live-apply tweaks for other KDE Plasma components (e.g., PlasmaShell) or KDE software (e.g., Kate keyboard shortcuts). Administrator needs to set up Virtual Machine and logout/login, clean configs or find some some magic qdbus commands.
3. A simple way to set new user defaults and reset user settings.
There are some tips here and there on how to do this (/etc/skel, kiosk etc.) but it arguably requires more work and experience than with GNOME dconf, for example.
4. Improve SDDM integration with KDE Plasma (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414062)
Sometimes administrator ask users to connect to some WiFi or VPN, or they want to connect with kRDP. Currently, all of these requires working Plasma session which sometimes is not possible due to low disk space or some misconfguration. In this case, Sysadmin have to instruct remote users to input CLI commands (with simple WiFi or VPN connection, it may be easier to SSH into problematic machine)
5. Improve integration of KDE Plasma user management to other services
Currently, when user changes its password, there is a suggestion to change password for KWallet. This looks like an extra step that inexperienced user may just skip. In my opinion, a more user-friendly way will be to change KWallet password automatically.
This issue with integration extends to other services, such as fscrypt (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460958)
* Why does it need to be done?
In my opinion, that will help regular/"home" users, as well as corporate adminisrators.
* How does it connect to KDE's vision of "A world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy"?
* How would it affect different parts of KDE?//
=What it will take=
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=How we know we succeeded=
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=Relevant links=
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414062
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422529
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=I am willing to put work into this=
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=I am interested=
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