KDE Kiosk Maintained?

[Ian Elwood]

Hi,

I wanted to check in with this list to see if the KDE Kiosk program is
being maintained, I am thinking about implementing a kiosk for my
office, but wanted to make sure the software is up to date.

My goal is to get a browser and Skype running on a desktop computer, so
that settings within each program can not be changed by end users.
Basically I want the kiosk to log them into a predetermined shared Skype
account and allow them to make calls to the contacts on that account.

If this one isn't being maintained, can you suggest a current stable
Kiosk program or solution?

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[sirio81]

2009/10/16 Ian Elwood <ielwood@...>:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to check in with this list to see if the KDE Kiosk program is
> being maintained

I made the same question and, unfortunatly, the answer is no.
I was looking for a program like kiosk but I didn' t find anything yet.
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[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Valerio Pachera <sirio81@...> wrote:
> 2009/10/16 Ian Elwood <ielwood@...>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to check in with this list to see if the KDE Kiosk program is
>> being maintained
>
> I made the same question and, unfortunatly, the answer is no.
> I was looking for a program like kiosk but I didn' t find anything yet.

Let's see.

Kiosk mode is supported but you will need to manually edit
configuration files. It has been supported since day one in KDE 4.x.

You probably are talking about Kiosk Tool, the application that makes
easy to configure kiosk mode. The answer is 'no', there is no Kiosk
Tool for KDE 4.x. Ian Geiser started a port of Kiosk Tool to KDE4
(it's available from
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/sysadmin/kiosktool/ ) but it
does not work. It might work on OpenSuSe but it definitely does not
work on Debian, Ubuntu or any other Debian-based distribution.

In fact, KDE 4.4 will bring KAuth, which may replace/complement Kiosk
Mode. I don't really know the details but here is more information:

http://drfav.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/tokamak-kauth-into-kdelibs/
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/60151
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/namespaceKAuth.html

The guy developing KAuth is Dario Freddi, you'll probably want to ask him.

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[Ian Elwood]

Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Valerio Pachera sirio81@... wrote:
  

2009/10/16 Ian Elwood ielwood@...:
    

Hi,

I wanted to check in with this list to see if the KDE Kiosk program is
being maintained
      

I made the same question and, unfortunatly, the answer is no.
I was looking for a program like kiosk but I didn' t find anything yet.
    

Let's see.

Kiosk mode is supported but you will need to manually edit
configuration files. It has been supported since day one in KDE 4.x.

You probably are talking about Kiosk Tool, the application that makes
easy to configure kiosk mode. The answer is 'no', there is no Kiosk
Tool for KDE 4.x. Ian Geiser started a port of Kiosk Tool to KDE4
(it's available from
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/sysadmin/kiosktool/ ) but it
does not work. It might work on OpenSuSe but it definitely does not
work on Debian, Ubuntu or any other Debian-based distribution.

In fact, KDE 4.4 will bring KAuth, which may replace/complement Kiosk
Mode. I don't really know the details but here is more information:

http://drfav.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/tokamak-kauth-into-kdelibs/
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/60151
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/namespaceKAuth.html

The guy developing KAuth is Dario Freddi, you'll probably want to ask him.

  

Thank you both for the helpful answers, and pointing me in the right direction to find a solution, much appreciated!

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