Re: Launcher strategies

2012-01-23 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Pessulus, a lockdown editor, works in Linux. I have used it. There is also a distribution called webconverger, whch could be used as a starting point. Two other points of takeoff if building a linux appliance would be tinycore or slitaz. They are really tiny distributions and very fast. --

Re: Launcher strategies

2012-01-23 Thread Jim Lambert
Ah, remember pre-OSX when you could replace the entire Finder with your own app? Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lis

Re: Launcher strategies

2012-01-23 Thread Andre Garzia
Richard, Long time ago, I built a simple kiosk external that would prevent the user from CMD+TABing out of the application. I know something similar can be built for windows too, maybe even with vbscript. For linux, I have no clue but just launching XOrg with no panels and just loading your app, t

Re: Launcher strategies

2012-01-23 Thread François Chaplais
On the mac, I use for my kid on the mac the simplified finder (on 10.3.9) with access to a limited number of apps (which I have chose). No access to hard drives, folders, etc.. Very foolproof. Le 23 janv. 2012 à 18:03, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > At the SoCal Linux Expo yesterday I ran into fell