Kiosk mode

[Johnny Jazeix]

Hi,

In the command line help (./gcompris -h), we only display the inputs we can
have on the command line, not the shortcuts: we display them in the help in
GCompris directly.

Le mar. 4 sept. 2018 à 18:29, Jacques Bon <jacques.bon at free.fr> a écrit :

> Thanks for your help Johnny.
>
> Two remarks :
>
> - the need to set up favorite activities in kiosk mode every time you
> launch GC is a bit annoying in a school context ; and you can't use the
> normal mode, because you can't let the children play with the setup tool ;
>

https://commits.kde.org/gcompris/72ec2effa283d1635c1cad306145356b41f8d7a2
always display the favorites at start-up.


> - I had problems at school today, because the kids found the way, without
> a keyboard connected, to launch the section bar just by taking the mouse
> pointer to the top of the screen. BTW I couldn't reproduce this behaviour
> on my home PCs, both laptop and desktop. Kids are devil.
>

I reproduced in local and did a fix:
https://commits.kde.org/gcompris/d69bee127853a6d429b3ecdd0206891bb45b8b32


>
> The best way IMO for the kiosk mode to behave, would be to keep the last
> user setup and prefs, which would permit everything you want: launch GC,
> setup your favorites (or not, if you want to keep the actual behaviour),
> quit and restart in kiosk mode to use it as you want - but without the
> section bar and the setup and quit icons.
>
> The ability to display or not the help, the about, and the quit icons
> would be fine too. With young children, the less is the best.
>
>
I'd rather like to keep the help and about as it can be useful for children
to understand the activities if needed.

Johnny

I think it should be not too difficult to code (but I'm just a user, not
> developper).
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 21:34:19 +0200
> JAZEIX Johnny <jazeix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9/3/18 9:00 PM, Jacques Bon wrote
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've just discovered the new QT version of GCompris, congratulations
> and thanks to all the team.
> > >
> > > I've tried the kiosk mode, very useful and highly desirable for me as
> a young kids (3-5 yo) teacher.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I couldn't manage to define and save a desktop in kiosk
> mode, i.e. just with 2-3 activities at the beginning of the year.
> > >
> > > In non-kiosk mode, kids are able to go to settings, active the
> activities bar, launch activities too difficult for them, precisely what I
> don't want.
> > >
> > > I wish to be able to set up a desktop, then hide the activities bar,
> then enable the kiosk mode and find back my desktop.
> > >
> > > Is it possible ?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help, best regards
> >
> > Hi Jacques,
> >
> > if you consider children will never use shortcuts, you can use Ctrl+S to
> > show/hide the sections (activities bar).
> >
> > Same for the bar with Ctrl+B (but it won't hide the small button to show
> > it again).
> >
> > Then, to switch the kiosk mode, you can manually edit
> > ~/.config/gcompris/gcompris-qt.conf, look for kiosk=false/true and put
> > the value you want.
> >
> > For now, setting the kiosk mode inhibits the favorites at start so they
> > are not visible anymore when you run again the application.
> >
> > If you plan to run once the application and don't stop GCompris, set the
> > activities you want as favorites, go back to the first tab and hide the
> > sections, it should be fine.
> >
> > Johnny
> >
> > ps: I just saw you find the solution, but in case there are more info
> > here, I still send it.
> >
> >
>
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