[Kde-kiosk] Alt F4 disable

[Philip Schroth]

Op vrijdag 17 december 2004 22:41, schreef Martijn Klingens:

Hi Martijn,

I followed the discussion about firefox and lockdown..

In my opinion the best would be to make an module to lockdown firefox on his 
own. Firefox/Mozilla has good support for locking down. I use an locked down 
Mozilla/Firefox in an kids environment (use filtering proxy and disable some 
funtions) Mozilla/Firefox uses also texfiles to lock down. Although not realy 
well documented.

Philip Schroth

> On Friday 17 December 2004 22:28, Philippe Schroll wrote:
> > > That said, I started working on KioskTool at the aKademy conference
> > > this summer and promised Waldo to write some modules,
> >
> > does that include a modules for non KDE related programs, like Firefox
> > too ?
>
> At least my TODO doesn't, since supporting those would be a very complex
> thing to do. Without using kdelibs (and thus the builtin Kiosk framework)
> it'll be hard to get a compatible set of lockdown options.
>
> There are a few ways to do such a thing, but none of them is perfect:
>
> - Don't use firefox, but compile the Gecko engine that firefox uses with
> KDE native widgets, which Zack Rusin and Lars Knoll wrote at aKademy this
> summer, and use Konqueror instead. Pro: uses all of KDE's power and
> Konqueror's kick-ass overall framework. Con: Doesn't support
> Firefox-specific extensions, amongst other things.
>
> - Make Firefox somehow support the KDE kiosk framework, perhaps by checking
> for the relevant config files and parsing them or by using kdelibs
> directly. Pro: it will still be firefox that you're using, no need to
> switch applications. Con: it's a technical nightmare to write and support.
>
> - Write a kiosk module that supports the firefox-specific settings, if any.
> Pro: by far the easiest to write, assuming Firefox has lockdown support in
> the first place. Con: It will be incompatible with the normal Kiosk
> framework, so any global settings won't necessarily take effect and other
> settings may behave differently then you're used to.
>
> Anyway, I've been a happy Konqueror user since KDE 2.0, so I've no itch to
> scratch here. It's not (and won't be) on my personal TODO unless it'd
> become part of my day job.
>
> Martijn
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