[Kde-kiosk] Our kiosk is live!

[Waldo Bastian]

On Friday 18 April 2003 22:23, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>   * KDM comes back w/o auto-login
>     (If you Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, X gets killed, and KDE comes back up logged in
>     as the default user.  Perfect!  But, if someone selects "Logout" from
> the K menu, it jumps back to the KDM login screen.  Not a BIG deal, since
> one can just hit [Enter] since the default user has no password. But still
> an annoyance.)

You can disable the logout buttons:
[KDE Action Restrictions]
logout=false

>   * file:///known/path/to/a/file  works
>     (You can't browse with "file:///" or look at directories with a
>     file browsing dialog, but you CAN still open local files if you type
>     them in the "Location" bar, if you know the filename ahead of time :^(
> )

In KDE 3.1.2 (not sure if/when it will be released though) it will be possible 
to have "open" restrictions in addition to "list" restrictions.

>   * "Location" pulldown should go away
>     (For privacy, it'd be nice if the history of the 'Location' couldn't
>     be seen.  I have text-completion disable, but people can still just
>     click the little 'down-arrow' icon on the right to pull down the
>     URL history.)

Will look into that.

Cheers,
Waldo
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