Supporting assisting technologies like screen magnifiers, on screen 

keyboards, keyboard enhancement utilities, screen readers, Braille displays, 

text to speech programs, speech recognition, etc.

Programming standards

  GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)

  KDE User Interface Guidelines

Application menu design and desktop lockdown

Another desktop standardization topic to consider is the application menu 

design. In enterprise environments users do not need five different applications 

appearing in their menus that do basically the same thing. This approach has 

been taken by Ximian for quite some time, by simplifying the menu structure a lot 

(see Figure 4 3 for choosing the standard GNOME video conferencing 

application GnomeMeeting, using the Video Conferencing launcher).

Figure 4 3   Simplified menu structure (Novell Linux Desktop)

In fully controlled environments you may want to reduce menu selections even 

further and lock them down so that the user cannot make changes to his 

configuration (like adding or changing panel applets, desktop launchers, menu 

entries, or background images). KDE provides the 

Kiosk

 framework to restrict 

the capabilities of the KDE environment. Although primarily designed for 

unattended operation of kiosk terminals, these features can also be very 

valuable in enterprise settings where a more controlled environment is desired. 

We will discuss the Kiosk framework in 5.1,  KDE Kiosk framework  on page 90.

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