[Kde-kiosk] Apply to user

[NÉMETH Balázs]

  Hello Tolga,

the kiosk-list and the kiosk project seems to be almost dead. Altough 
the kiosk framework  is  implemented in  KDE4.4  in the text based 
config files, but  no GUI tool to configure it.

Kiosk Admin Tool made for  KDE 3.x years ago, it is not for KDE 4.x

The lack of  a usable  KIOSK (lock down and policy) framework is an 
absolut "show stopper" in the enterprise environment, but I think this 
topic is completely out of the scope of the leading developers. More eye 
candy, more social networking, more desktop search, more and more theme; 
but nothing in the area of a manageable, enterprise ready desktop.

We sholud have ignore  KDE 4.x as a viable alternative in a large 
desktop project (3000 + desktop) due to the lack of  a clean, usable  
lock down - policy - remote manageamble framework.

It is sad to say, but GNOME is the right choice in the enterprise 
desktop I think (lock down, policies and remote acces  thanks to 
gconfd...). KDE 4.x is for the home user (eye candy), for the 
adventurous (like me in an enterprise environment) and for netbook 
users. Maybe it would be enterprise ready in the future, but it is not 
at the moment.

I recommend to you for reading a blog entry from A. J. Seigo  which is 
completely disappointing for me as a BackOffice Services & Desktop 
Management engineer  ("we still dont have a KDE4 GUI config frontend for 
KIOSK"):

" key quest: deployability
Deployability. Is that even a word? :) I love it for how ambiguous it 
is, even though it's pretty obvious what it probably refers to. So what 
exactly was I thinking about when I put "Deployability" on my list?

It is a potentially big topic. We could end up discussing user/group 
profile management and how _/*we still don't have a KDE4 GUI 
configuration front end for Kiosk, like that KDE3 KioskTool,*/_ to make 
setting up such systems easier. (Side note: good news on the Plasma 
Desktop front! In KDE SC 4.4 will support all the Kiosk keys that 
KDesktop/Kicker used to respect.) While we certainly need something in 
this category (and had at least one good start to it), that isn't what 
this blog entry is about.  "

Very promising ...

Have a nice day: Balázs NÉMETH
Hungary, Budapest



On 2010-03-04 10:14, Tolga wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just inherited the upgrade our kiosk terminals and so I did. I also
> installed kiosk admin tool, did all the settings, but can't find how to
> apply these settings to the user. Anybody can help?
>
> Regards,
>

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