[Kde-kiosk] Multimedia Kiosk - Marketing Display

[James Stout]

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From: James Stout <james.stout at gmail.com>
Date: Jan 4, 2006 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Kde-kiosk] Multimedia Kiosk - Marketing Display
To: Martijn Klingens <klingens at kde.org>

I apologize for my lack of sufficient description.

I am subscribed to this mailing list.  As with you, the rest is inline:

On 1/4/06, Martijn Klingens < klingens at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> A couple of questions before I (or someone else) can give your mail a
> stab...
>
> First of all: are you subscribed to this list or do we need to keep you on
> CC?
>
> I added the rest inline below:
>
> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:07, James Stout wrote:
> > Each display shows content independent of the other, i.e. one is not an
> > extension of the other nor are they clones.  The content also is in a
> loop.
>
> Have you got that working without applying any kiosk restrictions? In
> general
> it's best to first get all bits and pieces working as if it's a "normal"
> desktop and only then apply the lockdown options of KDE's Kiosk framework
> to
> it.
>
> Of course you should probably keep the eventual use case (kiosk) in mind
> for a
> couple of design decisions, but initially it isn't too much different from
> a
> normal setup yet.


I've not yet gotten this part working.  As this is a fairly new concept for
me, I had no real idea where to begin, which you've now provided.  Getting
it running on multiple displays as a 'normal' desktop does seem like the
obvious idea, but I wanted to consult the experts, as it were, before
getting very deep.  Especially since I have no real initial idea of how
large a project this will be.


> We are currently able to schedule the content (i.e. start playing on X
> date
> > / stop playing on Y date).
>
> Are you able to do this on the existing Windows systems or do you also
> have
> this working on Linux already? And if you don't, do you have any idea
> where
> to look for information, since this isn't really the scope of the Kiosk
> framework and/or this mailing list.


This is currently working on the windows setup.  As I stated above, I've not
really gone far past the 'planning' stages.  As far as this functionality
goes, I'm not overly concerned.  If the system were able to basically create
a play queue using all files in particular directory, then this same control
can be exercised manually by adding/removing files to that directory.  I
understand that some of these features will be beyond what I can get from
this list, I only meant to describe how our system currently operates as a
basis for what we would like, not an expectation for exact duplication of
each function.


> We are able to schedule what hours per day the kiosk is in operation.  i.e.
>
> > it displays content from 6 am to 11:59 pm.
>
> Same here, does "we are able" refer to Windows or Linux?


This, again refers to our current Windows installation.

--
> Martijn
>



Thanks,

James

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