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<chapter id="profiles">
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<title>Profiles</title>
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<para>A profile is a collection of default settings and restrictions
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that can be applied to either individual users or groups of users.</para>
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<para>The KDE desktop environment as well as all TDE applications use
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a specific
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<ulink url="http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/fsh.php#dir_structure">directory structure</ulink>
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to lookup configuration settings and various other information.
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KDE knows about several
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<ulink url="http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/fsh.php#dir_location">locations</ulink>
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for these directory structures.
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All the information and
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<ulink url="http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/config_file.php">configuration settings</ulink>
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found in the various locations are
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<ulink url="http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/config_file.php#cascading">combined</ulink>
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before they are used.
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<ulink url="http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/config_file.php#lock_down">Lock down</ulink>
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features control whether settings in the user's home folder ($TDEHOME or ~/.trinity)
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are taken into account or not.
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</para>
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<para>
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A profile consists of a standard KDE directory structure in a custom location with
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settings and information chosen by you.
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</para>
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<para>&kiosktool; lets you chose in which location
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a profile should be stored. Information about available profiles is stored in
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the file &etc_tderc;.
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</para>
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<para>It is recommended to store all profiles under a single
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directory. In this case the &etc_tderc; file only needs to contain a reference to this
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single directory and KDE and &kiosktool; will automatically pick up all profiles stored
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under this directory. See the <xref linkend="settings" /> chapter for more information.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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