[Kde-kiosk] Preventing drop to the desktop

[No One]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 14:15 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:09:43PM -0400, No One wrote:
> > > Is there any way to avoid dropping files on the desktop (using KDE
> > > configuration, not by setting permissions or ACLs on the desktop dir.).
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > What I do is set the ownership of the Desktop directory to "root" and
> > set the permissions to "755".
> 
> Heheheheh.  Sorry, I just thought that was funny. ;^)

Yeah.  If he really wants to prevent users from putting files on the
desktop only permissions and ACLs will do the job.  Even if the kiosk
stuff can prevent it from happening in Konqueror, the user could still
create files on the desktop in any application like Firefox or
OpenOffice.