KDE for sysadmins/Kiosk/DS2011 Meeting Notes
Notes of the Kiosk BoF at Desktop Summit 2011
Participants
- Michael Manke: [email protected]
- Inge Wallin: [email protected]
- Agustín Benito Bethencourt: [email protected]
- Alex Fiestas: [email protected]
- Kevin Krammer: [email protected]
Problems when migrating from 3.x to 4.x
- missing keys (no longer present in 4.x)
- renamed keys (actions in 4.x having a different name than in 3.x)
- no documentation of such changes
- Alex will be looking into generating a list of currently used keys from KConfigXT files
- Michael has a list of issues:
- Some config files used by KDE applications not under Kiosk control (e.g. $HOME/.config/Trolltech.conf)
- KRunner finding applications that are not in the user menus (e.g. Yast)
- shell_access does not prevent embedded terminal in Konqueror
- KRunner completing on executables even if shell_access is set to false
- Michael can provide KIOSK profile files that work on 3.x but don't on 4.x
Concerns regarding KDE Frameworks 5
- Kiosk integration from KAction: how to do with QAction (assuming KAction will be dropped)
Documentation
- generic documentation for Kiosk 3.x still (mostly) valid
- special wiki pages for some products (Plasma has one on techbase?)
- need documentation for things that change between versions
- might be feasible to have automated tools to take care of some of these changes