Kiosk setup fails

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 23:28:54 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 16:54 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 02/16/2010 04:45 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up a very basic "foolproof" environment for an elderly
> > relative (basically a browser, image viewer and Skype). This will be on
> > a shared Fedora netbook so I can't do anything too radical. An obvious
> > starting point would seem to be kiosktool, but it won't allow me to
> > create a new profile. The error is "klauncher said: Unknown protocol
> > 'fish'."
> 
> kiosktool is mostly broken these days, sadly (it was made/built for 
> kde3).  It hasn't gotten the love to make it work very well (if at all) 
> in kde4.
> 
> the kde3 fish kio may be in kdebase3.

No thanks, I don't need the grief.

If kiosktool is not functional OOTB, why is it still available in the
Fedora repo?

poc



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