[Kde-kiosk] KDE Kiosk Maintained?

[Ian Elwood]

Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Valerio Pachera <sirio81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 2009/10/16 Ian Elwood <ielwood at internationalrivers.org>:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wanted to check in with this list to see if the KDE Kiosk program is
>>> being maintained
>>>       
>> I made the same question and, unfortunatly, the answer is no.
>> I was looking for a program like kiosk but I didn' t find anything yet.
>>     
>
> Let's see.
>
> Kiosk mode is supported but you will need to manually edit
> configuration files. It has been supported since day one in KDE 4.x.
>
> You probably are talking about Kiosk Tool, the application that makes
> easy to configure kiosk mode. The answer is 'no', there is no Kiosk
> Tool for KDE 4.x. Ian Geiser started a port of Kiosk Tool to KDE4
> (it's available from
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/sysadmin/kiosktool/ ) but it
> does not work. It might work on OpenSuSe but it definitely does not
> work on Debian, Ubuntu or any other Debian-based distribution.
>
> In fact, KDE 4.4 will bring KAuth, which may replace/complement Kiosk
> Mode. I don't really know the details but here is more information:
>
> http://drfav.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/tokamak-kauth-into-kdelibs/
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/60151
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/namespaceKAuth.html
>
> The guy developing KAuth is Dario Freddi, you'll probably want to ask him.
>
>   

Thank you both for the helpful answers, and pointing me in the right
direction to find a solution, much appreciated!

--ian--
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