[Kde-kiosk] Preventing drop to the desktop

No One no-one at phreaker.net
Fri Oct 21 18:09:43 CEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:41 -0300, Darío Mariani wrote:
> Hello:
>  I'm configuring a KDE profile using Kiosktool and manually tweaking
> the config files. I marked the option "Lock Down Desktop Icons" so the
> icons in the desktop are unmovable and undeletable, but I found that I
> can drag a file from Konqueror to the desktop. Is there any way to
> avoid dropping files on the desktop (using KDE configuration, not by
> setting permissions or ACLs on the desktop directory). I'm using KDE
> 3.3.0.
>  Thanks for any help,
> 

What I do is set the ownership of the Desktop directory to "root" and
set the permissions to "755".  They can access the shortcuts this way
but cannot edit the directory.



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