Bug 1534 - allow daily duration restriction in parental control
Summary: allow daily duration restriction in parental control
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia tools maintainers
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Reported: 2011-06-02 22:07 CEST by Daniel Le Berre
Modified: 2016-10-11 21:13 CEST (History)
7 users (show)

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Source RPM: drakguard
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Description Daniel Le Berre 2011-06-02 22:07:11 CEST
My kids are running MGA. I use the parental control feature for years. It works fine.

However, I miss one functionality: I would like to be able to enforce that they cannot use more than X minutes per day the computer.

I have to admit that I have no idea if other parental control tools allow that neither what kind of technology can be used to enforce that.

If someone knows how to do it, then it might be a nice marketing argument to parents for MGA 2 :)
Manuel Hiebel 2011-06-02 22:29:31 CEST

CC: (none) => manuel
Hardware: i586 => All
Version: 1 => Cauldron
Source RPM: (none) => drakguard

Comment 1 John Balcaen 2011-06-03 00:31:23 CEST
Maybe you can try (if you're using KDE) kchildlock package ?

CC: (none) => balcaen.john

Comment 2 Daniel Le Berre 2011-06-03 08:57:29 CEST
Hi John,

It looks indeed like what I am looking for. Thanks.
The whole family is using Gnome at the moment.
I will try to switch the kids to KDE. 

I guess that the restrictions only apply when they are under KDE, and no longer if they use another desktop manager?
Comment 3 John Balcaen 2011-06-03 12:03:35 CEST
From the description ( http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KChildlock?content=88124 ) i would say yes.
Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-16 22:00:48 CEST
@ Daniel

Do you still need the enhancement, or did you manage to let the kids use KDE and are you content with KChildlock?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 5 Daniel Le Berre 2011-10-16 22:49:05 CEST
I moved my kids to KDE, because it was the simplest option for me. I looks like doing the job for now. Thanks again for the tip.

However, I would love the have the same feature independently of the window manager. I am used to gnome for years and I would have preferred to keep my kids there :)

Regarding the integration of Kchildlock, would it be possible at some point to detect in MCC that KDE and KChildlock are installed and to add an option to configure Kchildlock in the parental control section?
(or to suggest to install Kchildlock if KDE is installed)

At least it would provide the information to the end user that finer parental control is available in KDE.
Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-17 07:14:29 CEST
@ Daniel

Thanks for your comment :)

@ André

CC'ing you because of your interest in drak* tools. 
There is no current maintainer for drakguard

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
CC: (none) => andre999mga, dmorganec

Comment 7 andré blais 2011-10-17 07:56:00 CEST
It would be interesting to have a desktop-independant version that could be configured/installed from MCC.
There are already some applications which can be installed from MCC (not counting rpmdrake).

BTW, I'm gnome-oriented myself.

@ Marja -- thanks for the CC
Comment 8 David GEIGER 2011-10-30 08:40:33 CET
Hello,

I have another little problem with drakguard:

The tab "White List" is grayed, impossible to use. What can we do?

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2011-11-12 23:43:06 CET
@ David

Please don't mix issues in a bug report. 
Next time, please ask in the forums https://forums.mageia.org/en/ 
The tab "White list" works when you tick "Block all network traffic"

cc'ing Ennael because of the enhancement request of Daniel

CC: (none) => ennael1

Comment 10 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-07 14:13:37 CET
cc'ing creator of drakguard

CC: (none) => mageia

Dan Joita 2012-03-07 11:20:39 CET

CC: (none) => djmarian4u
Summary: Allow daily duration restriction in parental control => allow daily duration restriction in parental control

Comment 11 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:04:53 CEST
Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-26 17:31:57 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
CC: manuel => (none)
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA2TOO

andré blais 2014-02-04 19:36:09 CET

CC: andr55 => (none)

Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-11 21:13:22 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Whiteboard: MGA2TOO => (none)


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