<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">James Stout</b> <<a href="mailto:james.stout@gmail.com">james.stout@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Jan 4, 2006 1:55 PM
<br>Subject: Re: [Kde-kiosk] Multimedia Kiosk - Marketing Display<br>To: Martijn Klingens <<a href="mailto:klingens@kde.org">klingens@kde.org</a>><br><br></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I apologize for my lack of sufficient description.
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I am subscribed to this mailing list. As with you, the rest is inline:</span><br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martijn Klingens
</b> <<a href="mailto:klingens@kde.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
klingens@kde.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi James,<br><br>A couple of questions before I (or someone else) can give your mail a stab...
<br><br>First of all: are you subscribed to this list or do we need to keep you on CC?<br><br>I added the rest inline below:<br><br>On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:07, James Stout wrote:<br>> Each display shows content independent of the other,
i.e. one is not an<br>> extension of the other nor are they clones. The content also is in a loop.<br><br>Have you got that working without applying any kiosk restrictions? In general<br>it's best to first get all bits and pieces working as if it's a "normal"
<br>desktop and only then apply the lockdown options of KDE's Kiosk framework to<br>it.<br><br>Of course you should probably keep the eventual use case (kiosk) in mind for a<br>couple of design decisions, but initially it isn't too much different from a
<br>normal setup yet.</blockquote></span><div><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I've not yet gotten this part
working. As this is a fairly new concept for me, I had no real
idea where to begin, which you've now provided. Getting it
running on multiple displays as a 'normal' desktop does seem like the
obvious idea, but I wanted to consult the experts, as it were, before
getting very deep. Especially since I have no real initial idea
of how large a project this will be.</span><br>
</div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> We are currently able to schedule the content (i.e. start playing on X date
<br>> / stop playing on Y date).<br><br>Are you able to do this on the existing Windows systems or do you also have<br>this working on Linux already? And if you don't, do you have any idea where<br>to look for information, since this isn't really the scope of the Kiosk
<br>framework and/or this mailing list.</blockquote></span><div><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This is currently working on the
windows setup. As I stated above, I've not really gone far past
the 'planning' stages. As far as this functionality goes, I'm not
overly concerned. If the system were able to basically create a
play queue using all files in particular directory, then this same
control can be exercised manually by adding/removing files to that
directory. I understand that some of these features will be
beyond what I can get from this list, I only meant to describe how our
system currently operates as a basis for what we would like, not an
expectation for exact duplication of each function.</span><br>
</div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> We are able to schedule what hours per day the kiosk is in operation.
i.e.
<br>> it displays content from 6 am to 11:59 pm.<br><br>Same here, does "we are able" refer to Windows or Linux?</blockquote></span><div><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This, again refers to our current Windows installation.</span> <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>Martijn<br></blockquote></div><br><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Thanks,<br><span class="sg">
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James<br clear="all">
</span></span><div><span class="e" id="q_10896c5f812d8016_9"><br>-- <br>To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion.
</span></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion.