Can I hide just the 'Network and Connectivity' tab in system settings from all users ?
This is for 4.8.3 btw

Many thanks

M

You need to look into the Kiosk restrictions. You can find documentation for that on Techbase. Once you have suppressed all the modules in it, the entry should disappear.

The documentation on that is really confusing
For example it says Run the command 'kcmshell --list' for a list of available modules
but if you run that it just says
The following modules are available:
kresources - Configure KDE Resources
kresources - Configure KDE Resources

The page on techbase actually says

In fact, the users will not even see an option to configure the background in either the Control Centre or by right-clicking on the desktop. Run the command 'kcmshell --list' for a list of available modules and use the format kde-<module-name>.desktop in the configuration file. In most public access/café environments, one will probably want to lock down almost all control centre modules.
<img src="kiosk-lp/control_centre.jpg" width="211" border="0" height="456" alt="Image of Control Centre Modules" />
Figure 4. The Control Centre application interface....

I don't think this page has been updated in a while

Do you know of any more up to date howtos ?

best wishes

M

As far as I am aware, there is not an updated how to guide, however System Settings does still obey the disabling of control center modules by marking them as immutable.

I tried the example in the techbase article
so I added :-

[KDE Control Module Restrictions][$i]
kde-background.desktop=false

to /etc/kde4/share/config/kdeglobals

and that doesn't do anything - can you suggest anything else i can try?

Many thanks

M

I've just checked the code... does opening that module work now? I suspect it might still be visible - but will show nothing when clicked.

The techbase article implies that doing that would stop you changing the background
both from the systems settings AND by right clicking on the desktop. However the
background isn't in system settings any more so thats a worry and you can still right
click the desktop and change the background

I did a search for all my *.desktop files and there are a bunch that look like settings
ones ie settings-bluetooth.desktop, settings-network-settings.desktop etc so I tried a
selection of these in my kdeglobals as in

[KDE Control Module Restrictions][$i]
kde-settings-bluetooth.desktop=false

and then just to see

[KDE Control Module Restrictions][$i]
kde-bluetooth.desktop=false

none of which worked so I'm beginning to think KDE4 does it completely differently

best wishes

M

incidentally - it's now kcmshell4 --list to see all of the modules
but I'm still stuck

M

Ah ha !

You do this

kcmshell4 --list

which give you all the possible modules
then in /etc/kde4/share/config/kdeglobals

add
[KDE Control Module Restrictions][$i]
bluedeviladapters.desktop=false
proxy.desktop=false
etc
etc

Best wishes

M

Yes, that is correct.
Did you get this working?

Yes, KDE4 is subtly different to the techbase article
but I got there eventually

Thanks

M

If you wouldn't mind, could you please update the Techbase article with the necessary changes to work under KDE 4?
This will help other administrators / distributors who wish to do this in the future.

OK

M