Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1702 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 04 September 2009 16:31:06 Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> Anders Johansson skrev:
> > On Friday 04 September 2009 13:00:25 Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > - in the old KDE3.n, one was able to lock-down what users could do
> > > in/with the desktop. Either by using kiosktool or by hand editing
> > > various config files.
> > >
> > > - Are there any mechanisms in KDE4 that will allow one to do the same
> > > kind of thing?
> >
> > Yes, the config file kiosk mechanism works the same way in kde4 as it did
> > in kde3.
> >
> > Also, kiosktool is available
> >
> > Anders
>
> Hi Anders and list,
>
> - thank you for the info.
>
> - but when in YaST (I'm on KDE4.3.1 after much fighting), I search for
> Kiosktool, it's there in the form of kiosktool4. I take it, that that's
> for KDE4.
>
> If I select it for installation, I get exactly 228 dependency errors. So
> I back out again...
>
> I take it, there is no kiosktool for KDE4.3.1 as yet?
>
> - which is absolutely ok, If only it's in the pipeline :-)

Let's look a bit closer:
$ zypper se -s kiosk
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                  | Type       | Version              | Arch   | 
Repository
--+-----------------------+------------+----------------------+--------+------------------
  | datakiosk             | package    | 0.7-154.89           | x86_64 | 
openSUSE-11.1-Oss
  | datakiosk             | package    | 0.7-154.121          | i586   | 
openSUSE-11.1-Oss
  | kde4-kiosktool        | package    | 4.1.1.svn859930-2.41 | x86_64 | 
openSUSE-11.1-Oss
  | kde4-kiosktool        | package    | 4.1.1.svn859930-2.48 | i586   | 
openSUSE-11.1-Oss
  | kiosktool             | srcpackage | 1.99.svn958038-2.15  | noarch | 
KDE_Factory
  | kiosktool             | package    | 1.99.svn958038-2.15  | x86_64 | 
KDE_Factory
  | kiosktool             | package    | 1.0-252.11           | x86_64 | 
openSUSE-11.1-Oss
  | kiosktool             | package    | 1.99.svn958038-2.15  | i586   | 
KDE_Factory
  | kiosktool             | package    | 1.0-252.14           | i586   | 
openSUSE-11.1-Oss

So, KDE_Factory is 4.3.1 - so the kde4-kiosktool is the one from openSUSE 11.1 
and you should install the kiosktool package from 4.3.1,

Does this work for you?
Andreas
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