[Kde-kiosk] newbie

Romeo Theriault romeotheriault at fastmail.fm
Mon Dec 27 16:55:00 CET 2004


Thank you, That makes sense.) I will try to get it working with that in
mind.
romeo

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:49:59 +0100, "Martijn Klingens"
<klingens at kde.org> said:
> On Thursday 23 December 2004 16:58, Romeo Theriault wrote:
> > Thank you Martijn, The reason that I said it was buggy was because I'll
> > set up the user account the way that I want, then I'll log out and log
> > in as root and use the kiosktool to lock down there account.
> 
> And there's the problem :)
> 
> KioskTool operates on the profiles in /etc/kde-profile (the default) or
> any 
> other directory that you specify, and *NOT* your own customizations in 
> ~/.kde.
> 
> What you should do is to move all settings files from ~/.kde to the
> profile 
> before you start KioskTool. Ideally you should probably use two user 
> accounts, one for creating the initial template and one for evaluating
> the 
> result.
> 
> I agree that this is not really intuitive, especially since KioskTool
> doesn't 
> have a GUI for importing settings. If someone has enough spare time to 
> implement it I'm sure that Waldo will accept patches :)
> 
> -- 
> Martijn
> 
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