On 1/4/06, Martijn Klingens
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klingens@kde.org> wrote:Hi James,
A couple of questions before I (or someone else) can give your mail a stab...
First of all: are you subscribed to this list or do we need to keep you on CC?
I added the rest inline below:
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:07, James Stout wrote:
> Each display shows content independent of the other,
i.e. one is not an
> extension of the other nor are they clones. The content also is in a loop.
Have you got that working without applying any kiosk restrictions? In general
it's best to first get all bits and pieces working as if it's a "normal"
desktop and only then apply the lockdown options of KDE's Kiosk framework to
it.
Of course you should probably keep the eventual use case (kiosk) in mind for a
couple of design decisions, but initially it isn't too much different from a
normal setup yet.
I've not yet gotten this part
working. As this is a fairly new concept for me, I had no real
idea where to begin, which you've now provided. Getting it
running on multiple displays as a 'normal' desktop does seem like the
obvious idea, but I wanted to consult the experts, as it were, before
getting very deep. Especially since I have no real initial idea
of how large a project this will be.
> We are currently able to schedule the content (i.e. start playing on X date
> / stop playing on Y date).
Are you able to do this on the existing Windows systems or do you also have
this working on Linux already? And if you don't, do you have any idea where
to look for information, since this isn't really the scope of the Kiosk
framework and/or this mailing list.
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.
> 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.
Same here, does "we are able" refer to Windows or Linux?
This, again refers to our current Windows installation.
--
Martijn