From kde-core-devel  Sat Mar 04 11:55:13 2006
From: Torsten Rahn <torsten.rahn () credativ ! de>
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:55:13 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KIOSK settings
Message-Id: <200603041354.21916.torsten.rahn () credativ ! de>
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Am Samstag, 4. März 2006 11:41 schrieb Andras Mantia:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I used
> KIOSK a lot, and altough it is good, it has some problems. For example
> some applications seem to ignore the settings in a kiosk profile.

Any specific examples? :)

> Regarding kiosk I also have another problem: in some cases it is
> desirable to have global, but changeable configuration for a group of
> users (not global defaults for every user, but based on the group they
> are in).

I don't exactly get what you plan to accomplish. 

Do you want immutable settings for the whole amount of users (or groups) 
except for those users which are part of a special group that gets the rights 
to change their  settings? 
I never tried whether it would work the way I'd expect it to, but this is 
probably due to the case that I try to design profiles around such kind of 
doubled negations (not not changable) because they make stuff overly complex 
IMHO (And I think that this kind of "attitude" to design stuff is one of the 
reasons the freedesktop.org menu specification developed into its current 
h_o_r_r_i_b_l_e state). 

If on the other hand you just try to assign a profile to a group that 
definetely should (and does) work without problems.

Anyways, I also feel that Kiosk could definetely need some more active 
development love.

Torsten


>  As I saw this is not possible now, but maybe I'm wrong and it is just
> the same bug as above that some applications just ignore the settings
> in a profile.
>
> Andras