On mercredi, 21 juin 2017 14.55:28 h CEST Luca Beltrame wrote:
In data mercoledì 21 giugno 2017 14:29:47 CEST, ddemaio ha scritto:
Hello Doug,
Ludwig had mentioned that KDE has a working Kiosk mode, which locks down the desktop ie disable certain configuration options for users.
Yes, currently it does not have a User Interface (read: needs adjustments at the configuration file level), but it's pretty extensive in the amount of stuff that can be locked down. It is worth mentioning that the latest Plasma release cycles added a lot of kiosk functionality, also due to input from realities using Plasma in production.
Actually, this framework is very old: it initial inception is from the KDE 3 days (I remember setting it up for someone as well). The only difference is that KDE 3 used to have a GUI for it ("kiosktool").
Are any of you familiar with this? I noticed that it is not in the
It is part of the standard KDE Frameworks 5 libraries (specifically the KConfig framework) so it's at the disposal of anyone who taps in these features, and installed by default with Plasma (it needs it). ....
It does. In fact IIRC kiosk always worked from the 3.x days. More capabilities have been added recently.
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