root vs user

[pinco]

Pinco ha scritto:

> Hi,
> as I wrote in other messages, as root I've uninstalled Mozilla 
> Firebird and installed Mozilla Thunderbird.
> The all system seems work well (even if I still don't understand why I 
> don't have libxcom.so with my openoffice), but when I login as a user 
> I still have the icon of the Firebird on the desktop bar and menu and 
> I don't have access to Thunderbird.
>
> Somewhere - one of the online manuals - I've read that during the 
> process of creating a new user, after the creation or modification of 
> the directories/files /etc/passwd /home/USER /etc/shadow /etc/group 
> /etc/gshadow, copies the default user settings from /etc/skel/ to 
> /home/USER, but in my system this folder seems empty!
>
> Can someone give me some explanation?
> How can my user have the same root desktop and applications?
>
> Thanks a lot and, please, don't forget that I'm still learning!
>
> Ciao,
> Nino
>
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Sorry!
I was wrong. In my /etc/skel there are:
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.emacs
.gtkrc
.kde

but I still don't understand how to make a user have access to the same 
applications installed by root and to the same desktop.

Thanks,
Nino