Tag Archives: pessulus

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Recently I was accepted in Google Summer of Code program and my task is to revamp pessulus lockdown editor, to bring it up to date (dconf, GTK+3, etc.). In short, the plan is to make an lockdown editor, that is … Continue reading →