Default Ubuntu applications

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, March 08, 2010 05:41 AM, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op zondag 07-03-2010 om 19:26 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Chan Chung
> Hang Christopher:
>> Jan Claeys wrote:
>>> Actually, if they know a little bit of python, they can get around a lot
>>> of kiosktool restrictions (e.g. lots of applications allow you to use
>>> python to extend them, and it's quite simple to start whatever
>>> application from inside python).
>>
>> Heh. Good luck getting access to that first whether via a terminal or
>> Alt-F2!
>
> That's the whole point: many applications (including OOo, Totem, Gedit,
> Kate, the GIMP, Inkscape, etc.) allow you to run python code from inside
> those applications (as plugins, or sometimes even in a custom python
> console).  And it's trivially simple to circumvent kiosktool's
> restrictions that way (trust me, I've done it).
>
> (It might work if you limit yourself to a small number of applications
> that are officially supported by kiosktool, but that's not useful in
> many situations.)
>
>

Oh, interesting...guess I will just have to pick up python...might as 
well do it while I am modifying a mailman memberadaptor for postgresql.