[Kde-kiosk] kde menu restrictions not working

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Saturday 03 September 2005 11:00, Michael Melling wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:03:53 +0100
> From: MICHAEL  MELLING <mellingm at postmaster.co.uk>
> Subject: [Kde-kiosk] kde menu restrictions not working
> To: kde-kiosk at kde.org
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> hi there,
> 
> Our school is about to use a KDE desktop our computer room this year 
> at our school. Obviously I need to make group restrictions for pupils 
> with KDE Kiosk admin tool.  
> 
> I have the following problem - Kiosk is not registering the KDE Menu 
> changes I make.I need to make a simple uncluttered menu as this is 
> being used by children as young as 4.    

We (the FreeNX Development Team) recently (during the aKademy KDE 
developer conference) came across a nice nifty utility called
"kedulauncher". You should check it out. (Its author is in CC:)

We are looking into ways about how to make that into a generic,
easily configurable general KDE application launcher for thin 
client environments. Probably I'll have time to blog about this 
later today. (Watch out for http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/).

kedulaunch (and kdeapplaunch) will run one or more individual apps
over the network and display it on the local desktop.

> I have attempted to delete unnecessary games and  other item menus in 
> kiosk mode to make the desktop very simple for them. However when i 
> log  in as a user who is part of the pupils group the KDE menu does 
> not  reflect any of the changes I have made and just reverts to the 
> orginal default menu. It works for all the other restrictions.    

Not commenting here -- don't know enough....

> Just for the record. The desktops are fedora 4 (thin client) 

kedulaunch and the more general KDE Application Launcher will
work beautifully over the network for thin clients using FreeNX
(see http://freenx.berlios.de/).

We did some intitial testing, and it does exactly what we need.
The only thing we need to prevent by Kiosk means "shell access".

Which kind of thin clients will you be using? Which software?
LTSP? Will the local thin client run a complete desktop 
environment?

Cheers,
Kurt