Bug 169225

Summary:	Parental controls KCM
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	adrien <adrienenator>
Component:	general	Assignee:	System Settings Bugs <sourtooth+ssbugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ales.astone, andresbajotierra, angel_blue_co2004, jlp, johannesobermayr, johnmaverick74, KaiUweBroulik2, nate, ngompa13, raghu, ralf.habacker
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description adrien 2008-08-16 12:14:56 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0KDE 1.2KDE 1.2)
Installed from:    UnspecifiedCompiled From SourcesUnspecified

Hi,

I think that a parental control system should be added to kde. Of course it should be optional.
Some of these features may be controlled by general programs (like web content filtering), others really depends on kde like a time limit of kde sessions. 

Example of needed features:
 * filter web content
 * limit msn/google talk/jabber sessions (disable or time-limit)
 * time limit of kde sessions (like 2 hours a day)
 * etc

Comment 1 Angel Blue01 2009-03-09 00:58:37 UTC

Couldn't some of that br done through Kiosk?

Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-12-01 21:41:29 UTC

I‘m wondering nobody ever requested such a feature. It isn‘t that also Linux users do have children? Or don‘t they? Also, Windows NT can restrict your login time since 1994 (NT 3.x could do that!) and Windows 7 also has a nice working easy-to-use parental control system. So why doesn‘t the in my eyes best desktop interface have one?

See this as well: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=51709

Comment 3 Ralf Habacker 2012-02-19 22:54:32 UTC

> time limit

On https://launchpad.net/timekpr there is an, as far as i can see, already working application, which development has been stopped. The applications are python based and the admin and client notifier gui uses gtk. 

As already mentioned not having parental control in KDE will exclude many families around the world as potential users.

Comment 4 John 2024-02-22 17:16:49 UTC

Would like this also!

more and more, it is important to take care of the education of children...

Comment 5 Johannes Obermayr 2024-12-15 20:02:55 UTC

I assume some parts will be a "must have" in Germany if the Update to the Youth Media Protection Act (German: Reform des Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrags, Sechster Medienänderungsstaatsvertrag) becomes reality:
https://www.ministerpraesident.sachsen.de/ministerpraesident/TOP-10-Sechster-Medienaenderungsstaatsvertrag.pdf

I am wondering whether Linus will also accept something within the Kernel (IMHO then German Federal Council forces that as well…)