[Kde-kiosk] kiosk mode howto - web browsing only computer..

[Bill Kendrick]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:51:26AM +0100, Joost Hietbrink wrote:
> From: "Bill Kendrick", Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:37 PM
> 
> > Your problem here is that you'll need to set up Mozilla so that it
> > doesn't launch any arbitrary programs, allow the user to open random files
> > off of the filesystem, or save downloaded files to the filesystem.
> 
> Hmm... so the KDE window manager doesn't have any control over programs such
> as Mozilla?

So far as saving files to the home directory, and so forth?
No!  I don't feel it should, either.  It should be up to the application.

In KDE's case, Konqueror is using a shared 'kiosk framework' that KDE
provides.  One could just as easily tweak Mozilla's code to pay attention to
the framework, too.  It's just that it hasn't been done.


<snip>
> I already thought Konqueror would be a better shot but it doesn't support
> some websites I tried it on...

I'm using KDE 2.2.2 and it's been working fabulously for me.
Then again, I came from Netscape 4.7 :^)


> But if I'm going to use Konqueror what will be my first steps to turn it
> into a "web browsing only" computer?
> Can you tell me of some readme files or something?

  http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kdecore/README.kiosk


<snip> 
> But the website does look nice ;) (http://kiosk.mozdev.org/)..

PLEASE tell me you're kidding. :^)


Good luck!

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