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Re: [Debathena] #1016: Browser kiosk should disable printing
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Wed Aug 10 19:52:56 2011
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To: geofft@mit.edu, jdreed@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:52:49 -0000
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#1016: Browser kiosk should disable printing--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------
Reporter: geofft | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: The Distant Future
Component: -- | Keywords:
See_also: |
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Comment(by jdreed):
This is harder than it seems, because Firefox is stupid. The r-kiosk home
page says:
You might want to remove the print dialog by adding following lines to
your user.js:
user_pref("print.always_print_silent",true);
user_pref("print.show_print_progress",false);
However, that doesn't disable printing, just not show the print dialog.
Now, we could do something really stupid like remove the "mitprint"
printer, or disable CUPS entirely, but this is Hard(tm). The easy
solution is to popup a zenity dialog that says "You cannot print. All
print jobs will be discarded." or some such.
-- Ticket URL: <http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/1016#comment:1>Debathena <http://debathena.mit.edu/>MIT Debathena Project
