[Kde-kiosk] A nice uniform desktop for all users...

[Verner Kjærsgaard]

Onsdag 15 september 2004 19:44 skrev Martijn Klingens:

Dear Sir and others,

- again thank you for your detailed answer.
- I shall now close this matter by my final comments as listed below :-)

> On Thursday 16 September 2004 09:42, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> > - Now, I've only got one small question left; namely versions (of SuSE).
> > - Say, I install a brand new SuSE9.1, update it online using YOU.
> > - Will that give me a combined version of SuSE9.1/KDE3.-something that
> > will work?
>
> As far as Kiosktool and lockdown is concerned, yes. However, by default YOU
> will not give you the latest and greatest KDE.

Experience taught me to stick with standard. So SuSE9.1/KDE3.2.whatever it'll 
be.

>
> Fire up YaST and go to the Installation Sources. Add
> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/u
>pdate_for_9.1/yast-source to get KDE 3.3 for SuSE. Whether you want 3.3 or
> stick with the default 3.2 is of course up to you ;-)
>

This advice is a real gem! It shows generally how to do a most wanted thing - 
ever so easy and automatically. Thank you. For my personal PCs it's likely 
what I'll do, for the school setup, I don't think so :-)

> > BTW: I'll keep this list informed of our progress :-)
> > And, I always keep logs of what I do. Such a log could perhaps be of
> > value to others wanting to do a similar setup? I would only be to happy
> > to post it once it's ready.
>
> It probably will be. Especially if you can incorporate it into the already
> existing documentation like http://enterprise.kde.org/ or one of the other
> platforms that we have.

Well, I was more thinking of a "This is how (simple) we did it" document.
>
> Speaking about those: Waldo, where is Kiosk information available? I'd like
> to have a complete list available somewhere here in the list archives,
> ready for searching by Google.
>
> Martijn
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