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GSoC final report on Lockdown
So, the GSoC is over. During the summer the project changed form the initial vision quite a bit. Instead of being a simple standalone profile editor, the lockdown solution I’ve been working on requires some changes in: Accountsservice, where the … Continue reading
Progress on GNOME lockdown #5
During the last GUADEC the vision on lockdown editor specifics got quite clear: The information about which user has which profile is stored in AccountsService. The newest changes are found in forked repository. It allows basic reading and writing of … Continue reading
News from translation BoF from GUADEC
Yesterday I spent the whole day with translators discussing how to make localization efforts easier for everyone. The work in progress is documented on GNOME wiki page. A quick overview of things to be done: Make a release calendar, to … Continue reading
Help us (translators) help you
A lot of talks here at GUADEC are about communication between developers and newbies, technical writers, etc. As a translator I want to point out that it would be great if you remembered about us as well. And by “remember” … Continue reading
How does your software feel?
Disclaimer — I write this as a software user, not a developer. After the speech “Every detail matter”, I wanted to share some anecdotal experience on quality of software. When I have to determine quality of software, I don’t have … Continue reading
Progress on GNOME lockdown #4
OK, so it is time to report on the progress with the lockdown editor. During the previous week I did some gnome-control-center poking, and Ryan (desrt) is pushing to extend account services to support mandatory dconf profiles, group management and … Continue reading
Progress on GNOME lockdown #3
Now that I am back form the final month of studies, which stalled my progress for good 4 weeks, some things in my initial plan has changed. After some consultation with my mentor on how to implement the creation and … Continue reading
Going to GUADEC
In short, I am going to GUADEC. The badge roughly represents my feelings about this: I will take my three GNOME hats: GSoC student — to meet all those involved in making the lockdown editor; translator from the Latvian team … Continue reading
Progress on GNOME lockdown #2 — mockups
My first mockup of the next incarnation of Pessulus: As you can see, it is very closely modelled on the old user interface. The basic idea is that the administrator selects a lockdown profile on the left pane and reviews … Continue reading
Progress on gnome lockdown #1 — feature list
My first task was to identify, how would a locked down computer be used and by whom. The list so far: single purpose kiosk — users can see only pages of a particular site; Internet access point — users can … Continue reading
