Haiku KIOSK

This is fairly simple. mostly scripting.

comment out the lines in /boot/system/boot/Bootscript:

         launch system/Tracker
         launch system/Deskbar
 
        (sleep 7; /boot/system/apps/ProcessController -deskbar) &

by adding a # in front of the code. This will prevent the Deskbar and Tracker from launching.

Add a link to the app you want to launch in /boot/home/config/boot/launch to start the application.

This is just a start. For a KIOSK you will need to have a script monitoring your application and re-launch it if the user closes it. You may also need to re-map ctrl or alt to prevent most suers from launching the Team Monitor and restarting the Desktop.

Although the set-up is simple, there is no web browser for HAIKU stable enough for use in a KIOSK at this time.

You could try asking that question of Stippi directly in the comments section of his latest blog post at :

http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/stippi/2010-04-16_webpositive_gets_bit_more...

Since he has written most of the code for the WebPositive app (not neccesarily the webkit backend which was ported by Ryan Leavengood and Maxime Simon mostly), he would be the best person to ask. If you have any suggestions as to how to implement this, I get the impression that he'd probably be quite receptive. Note that fullscreen mode was only added as of r482 of WebPositive on May 4 so, it's a two week old feature! See:

http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-webkit-commits/r482-webkittrunkWebKi...

Ain't open source great!

Alan

There is a ticket now to corect it, but WebPositive svn502 will open fullscreen size if you close the application in fullscreen mode.