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Kiosk in KDE 4?
by scanady on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @12:14

Way to go KDE! This is great news. BTW, I'm using KDE 4.03 and loving it, but I haven't found out any info on the progress of Kiosk in KDE 4. Does anyone know about its status?

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Re: Kiosk in KDE 4?
by Div on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @15:19

KIO will be droped in favor of policy kit I think.

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Re: Kiosk in KDE 4?
by jos poortvliet on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @23:43

huh, what can policy kit do which is even remotely close to KIOSK? They have nothing in common...

KIOSK restricts what the user can do in the GUI, Policy kit is like a smarter SUDO replacement.

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Re: Kiosk in KDE 4?
by she on Wednesday 09/Apr/2008, @00:35

Yeah makes me wonder too... especially as Policy Kit introduces namespaces to users, but its an outside-KDE project and not that easy to setup (takes time)

oh well hope this info is not correct

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Re: Kiosk in KDE 4?
by Aaron Seigo on Wednesday 09/Apr/2008, @00:45

kiosk (not kio, which is about file access (ergo the "io")) will not be dropped in favour of policykit; the two are complimentary but orthogonal concepts.

kiosk lets one define defaults and lock down policies for settings, policykit allows one to allow access to and define processes that need to be run with auth priveleges other than what the user may be logged in with.

both allow user/group definitions and are rather flexible at runtime, but both are needed rather than one replacing the other.

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Re: Kiosk in KDE 4?
by liquidat on Wednesday 09/Apr/2008, @06:04

Kiosk ist of course still working in KDE 4, just like it worked for KDE 3. But you should keep in mind that some keys changed: for example all kicker keys are not valid anymore, but that's clear because there is no kicker in KDE 4 :)

However, this article mentions the GUI to kiosk, kiosktool - and this might be a problem with KDE 4: at the moment the development of kiosktool has stopped. There is no maintainer who is willing (or better: who has time) to port the tool over to KDE 4.

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