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Subject: Re: [Kde-kiosk] Multimedia Kiosk - Marketing Display
From: Martijn Klingens <klingens () kde ! org>
Date: 2006-01-06 15:42:26
Message-ID: 200601061642.26507.klingens () kde ! org
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Hmm I hoped someone who knows this better would step up and answer James'
questions while I didn't have the time...
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 20:37, James Stout wrote:
> We are currently able to schedule the content (i.e. start playing on X
> date / stop playing on Y date).
>
> This is currently working on the windows setup. As I stated above, I've
> not really gone far past the 'planning' stages. As far as this
> functionality goes, I'm not overly concerned. If the system were able to
> basically create a play queue using all files in particular directory, then
> this same control can be exercised manually by adding/removing files to
> that directory. I understand that some of these features will be beyond
> what I can get from this list, I only meant to describe how our system
> currently operates as a basis for what we would like, not an expectation
> for exact duplication of each function.
It's easy to script anyway, at least for videos. And I guess KPresenter is
quite easy to script remotely through the DCOP interface if you want to
script a presentation.
> > We are able to schedule what hours per day the kiosk is in operation.
> > i.e. it displays content from 6 am to 11:59 pm.
Can be as simple as a cron job that tells the desktop to log off gracefully
(or non-gracefully) at the required time. If you're not familiar with cron
yet, take a look at the manual pages ('man cron' in the shell, or man:cron in
Konqueror for a graphical version) or pick a book on Unix. Any book will do,
it's about 30 year old technology :)
Once you've all this working you can start working on the real kiosk-related
part: locking down the whole system. Be sure to pick applications that CAN be
locked down if you need that. Besides most KDE applications I am only aware
of Firefox to have some lockdown options. Given that this list is about KDE I
obviously have a limited view though, and there may be many more apps out
there. This list probably can't support you with them though.
--
Martijn
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