[Kde-kiosk] Lost

Martijn Klingens klingens at kde.org
Mon Oct 31 18:06:29 CET 2005


On Monday 31 October 2005 17:46, Casey King wrote:
> Now the next step in this
> process if for me to lock down the Firefox browser.  Anyone ever done
> this before, or can point in me in a good direction?

No experience from me, but look from an earlier post from me in the archives 
with firefox in the subject, it lists the two threads that you should look 
up:

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On Friday 07 October 2005 10:11, Chris Fanning wrote:
> I understand that non-KDE apps break the kiosk. Perhpas I could user
> konqueror instead of Firefox, buy I can't ask the users not to use
> ooffice. We had quite an effort getting them off msoffice, I would not
> survive if the were told to change suite again.
>
> Anyone know any firefox/oofice kiosk tricks?

Firefox has its own lockdown framework. I mentioned it before, but this time 
I'll change the subject so others can find it more easily.

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As for Firefox, the KDE toolset has no support for it, but firefox has its own 
lockdown framework. Search this mailing list's archives for the following 
recent threads:

* [Kde-kiosk] Extra modules for kiosktools
* [Kde-kiosk] Alt F4 disable
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For OOo I have no idea. Perhaps the kde-ified OOo that SUSE ships is actually 
also capable of Kiosk restrictions? At least the KIO restrictions on opening 
files and urls might very well work. Action restrictions and restrictions on 
launching external commands are harder, did anyone ever investigate this?
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Martijn


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