status of kde/plasma kiosk framework in kf5

David Edmundson david at davidedmundson.co.uk
Wed Dec 7 15:13:02 UTC 2016


>
>
> > i also kinda hacked my own secure environment where shell access is not
> allowed by placing a .desktop file in .local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/
> that allows me to open a terminal in the current folder ^^
> > dolphin shouldn't allow this.. right?
>
> Konsole's desktop file has a key X-KDE-AuthorizeAction=shell_access that
> tells klauncher to refuse to start it when such restriction is in effect.
>
> I'll cc David Faure as KIO master whether he knows how to prevent the
> system from picking up custom applications and services in the user's home.
> I thought that the .desktop files needed to be marked executable but that
> doesn't seem to be the case. David? Maybe "run_desktop_files" restriction
> helps here?
>
> We have the key
run_desktop_files

This should prevent loading any .desktop files in .local

(in theory at least)
David
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