[Kde-kiosk] Kiosk intro

[Bill Kendrick]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 05:47:05PM -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> 
> Hi, Im new to the list and to the kiosk program. 
> 
> What are some typical programs or use cases kiosk is used for?  Is it used in
> production anywhere?

I've used KDE's Kiosk Framework twice, in Davis, California.
One was to replace a very crufty and unsafe-looking Windows/Netscape-4-based
public access terminal at a newspaper/magazine store downtown,
and the other was to provide a PC for people to use at a coffee shop that
was providing wireless Internet access.  (Some people saw the "Internet"
sign and didn't realize they had to have a laptop and wireless. :^) )

The former is still up and running (and in major need of update, no doubt),
the latter sadly disappeared when the coffee shop changed ownership.

Photos of the latter:

  http://www.lugod.org/photos/chamonix/

Both simply provided Konqueror and had a locked-down IceWM interface.
This was before the GUI KDE Kiosk Tool existed, BTW. :)

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