KDE for mom: an icon for ppp shell-scripts

[James Richard Tyrer]

Alexander Farber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since all my mother ever does on her PC is reading
> mails and browsing web via a modem I'd like to try
> to replace her Win98 with OpenBSD 3.4 and KDE 3.1.4.
> 
> I don't want to use kppp 

Why?

> because it seems to be linux-
> centric to me and I would like to use BSD's userland
> ppp (because of filtering and better control with
> dial/alive) and because I don't want her to enter 
> any ISP phones/passwords.
> 
> I just would like her to click an icon,

Duh! You can do that with KPPP, I do.  I have this desktop icon file:

EarthLink.desktop
--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
[Desktop Entry]
BinaryPattern=
Comment=Dial Up
Comment[en_US]=Dial Up
Exec=kppp -c EarthLink -q
GenericName=EarthLink
GenericName[en_US]=EarthLink
Icon=earthlink
MimeType=
Name=EarthLink
Name[en_US]=EarthLink
Path=
ServiceTypes=
SwallowExec=
SwallowTitle=
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------

and select: "Dock into panel on connect"

All I do is click the icon and it dials up.  When I quit, it disappears.

If you don't want her to accidently change things after you set up for her 
ISP, then change the owner and permissions of: 
"$HOME/.kde/share/config/kppprc" so she can't write it, or use the Kiosk stuff.

--
JRT

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