Kurt wrote:
at the aKademy i learnt about the kiosk tools kiosk tools allow to define, what application pupil can start or configure. It is an textfile, a profile which a user can not change. kiosk is working in KDE 3.2 so it will be in sarge.
The framework was introduced in v3 and has been heavily improved with recent releases, including a graphical tool that allows you to test the enviroment:
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool.php This has made a number of our teaching staff very happy :)
i propose an exchange of kiosk profiles between teachers, admins, schools.
Excellent idea, we only lock down the pupils and were still tweaking that, but I'll let anyone who asks have a copy of our kde profile. Is there a facility for this atm? If not it shouldnt be too difficult for me to arrange something suitable,
Regards, Ben --On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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