Hello Dear kde mates.

I've been working with KDE kiosk restrictions and i have the following questions/reports that have todo with dolphin and konqueror also.

In Dolphin it seems that there are no permanently way to lock the panels, and hide dot files.

So, in a dolphinrc like this one, the immutable tag is not doing anything.

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[$i]
[MainWindow][$i]
MenuBar[$i]=Disabled
ToolBarsMovable[$i]=Disabled
State=AAAA/wAAAAD9AAAAAwAAAAAAAAB+AAAB9PwCAAAAAvsAAAAWAGYAbwBsAGQAZQByAHMARABvAGMAawAAAAAA/////wAAAAgBAAAF+wAAABQAcABsAGEAYwBlAHMARABvAGMAawEAAAAAAAAB9AAAAFABAAAFAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAA/AIAAAAC+wAAABAAaQBuAGYAbwBEAG8AYwBrAAAAAAD/////AAAACAEAAAX7AAAAFABzAGUAYQByAGMAaABEAG8AYwBrAAAAAAD/////AAAACAEAAAUAAAADAAAAAAAAAAD8AQAAAAH7AAAAGAB0AGUAcgBtAGkAbgBhAGwARABvAGMAawAAAAAA/////wAAAAgBAAAFAAACbQAAAfQAAAAEAAAABAAAAAgAAAAI/AAAAAEAAAACAAAAAQAAABYAbQBhAGkAbgBUAG8AbwBsAEIAYQByAAAAAAD/////AAAAAAAAAAA=


[General][$i]
EditableUrl[$i]=false
GlobalViewProps=true
HomeUrl=~/Desktop
ShowCopyMoveMenu=false
ShowSpaceInfo[$i]=false

[Notification Messages][$i]
ConfirmDelete=true




For instance if you right click on the edge of the left panel, it will open a popup menu where you can even show a konsole_kpart even when you have shell_access=false & action/shell_access=false & action/executeshellcommand=false in kdeglobals!
The other big problem with this popup menu is that you can bring the main toolbar and there you have access to dolphin full configuration.

Konqueror as a replacement kiosked File Manager
What it is working in dolphin and not in konqueror is the option to disable file properties, dolphin is respecting action/properties=false where konqueror is not!

What is not working in both of kde 4.8.X and 4.9 betas is the option to hide dot files and dotted dirs, so there's no way to prevent a user from messing with the .kde settings.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Dolphin should prevent user from messing with toolbars and follow the hidden files previous kde3 behaviour.

More discussion at kde users forum here -> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=102789