A system-wide KDE Desktop

Jean HAUSSER

The contents of this document only concern KDE 2. The Kiosk framework which was introduced together with KDE 3 is a much better solution to the problem that is handled here.

Table of Contents

1. What we needed : to limit the changes that could be made to the KDE desktop

2. One solution, and how it works

3. Practically

3.1. Step 1
3.2. Step 2
3.3. Step 3
3.4. Step 4

4. Frequently Asked Questions

4.1. Why not make it possible to have multiple desktop settings profiles ?
4.2. Why not embeed such a system in KDE ?
4.3. I found a bug !

5. Some interesting links related with the topic

5.1. Terminal servers
5.2. KDE