From kfm-devel Thu Oct 18 11:28:09 2001 From: "Aviram Alkalay" Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:28:09 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Re: Modified Konqueror X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=100340474327773 This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_related 0045143583256AE9_= Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 0045143583256AE9_=" --=_alternative 0045143583256AE9_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dirk, where can I find kdenox? I looked in freshmeat, rpmfind and sourceforge without success. It uses KHTMLPart? The short description you gave (kiosk mode) and some good DCOP interfaces is everything we need for this project. Folks, thank you for your responses. Regarding all those key-bindings and accelerators issues, we are planning to run this solution without KDE nor a window-manager. We'll have only XServer, a special keyboard, no mouse, a screen, and the browser (probably started with -geometry parameter). Regarding writing our own application, this will be made later, probably using Java. But right now the customer needs a very practicall solution to keep using its Cobol/Dos application in MicroFocusCobol/Linux with minimum changes. Anybody wants to write a simple-free-opensource-rpmized application using KHTMLPart and DCOP in one week, to be used in this solution? It MUST run with the KDE libraries present in RedHat 7.1 because our POS hardware need special 3rd party drivers that are supported and bound only to RH7.1 kernel version (2.4.2). The importance of DCOP is that the hardware has a special keyboard that X can't understand. Input will be handled by the customer application, and HTML files will be generated. Then, the application will call the browser DCOP interfaces to update the window. Ugly, but fast to do with what we have now. Thank you, Avi ___ _ _ ___ __ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ ___ __ _ __ ___ ___ __ ____ ____ _ Avi Alkalay :: Linux : OpenSource : IT Architect Tel: +55 11 3050-2327 | Fax: +55 11 3050-5044 | Tie: 842-2327 Linux Marketing & Deployment for LA :: IBM Brazil Dirk Mueller 10/17/2001 01:03 PM Please respond to Dirk Mueller To: Aviram Alkalay/Brazil/IBM@IBMBR, kfm-devel@kde.org cc: Subject: Re: Modified Konqueror On Mit, 17 Okt 2001, David Faure wrote: > > Folks, we are working on a project for a big supermarket in Brazil. We are > > planing to run RedHat Linux 7.1 (Konqueror 2.1) on every supermarket's > > Points Of Sale (checkout) machine. > Great ! ;) I suggest you have a look at kdenox - despite its name you can still use it with X as well. it is a simple browser that can be easily expanded for your needs (i.e. use the kiosk mode that is built-in). Dirk --=_alternative 0045143583256AE9_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Dirk, where can I find kdenox? I looked in freshmeat, rpmfind and sourceforge without success. It uses KHTMLPart? The short description you gave (kiosk mode) and some good DCOP interfaces is everything we need for this project.

Folks, thank you for your responses.
Regarding all those key-bindings and accelerators issues, we are planning to run this solution without KDE nor a window-manager. We'll have only XServer, a special keyboard, no mouse, a screen, and the browser (probably started with -geometry parameter).
Regarding writing our own application, this will be made later, probably using Java. But right now the customer needs a very practicall solution to keep using its Cobol/Dos application in MicroFocusCobol/Linux with minimum changes.

Anybody wants to write a simple-free-opensource-rpmized application using KHTMLPart and DCOP in one week, to be used in this solution? It MUST run with the KDE libraries present in RedHat 7.1 because our POS hardware need special 3rd party drivers that are supported and bound only to RH7.1 kernel version (2.4.2).

The importance of DCOP is that the hardware has a special keyboard that X can't understand. Input will be handled by the customer application, and HTML files will be generated. Then, the application will call the browser DCOP interfaces to update the window. Ugly, but fast to do with what we have now.

Thank you,
Avi
___ _ _ ___ __ _ __  _ _ __ _ _ ___  __ _ __  ___ ___ __  ____ ____ _
Avi Alkalay <avi at br.ibm.com> :: Linux : OpenSource : IT Architect
Tel: +55 11 3050-2327 | Fax: +55 11 3050-5044 | Tie: 842-2327
Linux Marketing & Deployment for LA :: IBM Brazil


Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org>

10/17/2001 01:03 PM
Please respond to Dirk Mueller

       
        To:        Aviram Alkalay/Brazil/IBM@IBMBR, kfm-devel@kde.org
        cc:        
        Subject:        Re: Modified Konqueror

       


On Mit, 17 Okt 2001, David Faure wrote:

> > Folks, we are working on a project for a big supermarket in Brazil. We are
> > planing to run RedHat Linux 7.1 (Konqueror 2.1) on every supermarket's
> > Points Of Sale (checkout) machine.
> Great ! ;)

I suggest you have a look at kdenox - despite its name you can still use it
with X as well.

it is a simple browser that can be easily expanded for your needs (i.e. use
the kiosk mode that is built-in).


Dirk

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