> Konsole is a *great* program, but is designed for the end user to have a
> lot of control over their session--which in our environment would be
> very bad.  The users have no clue what emulation to pick, how many
> columns and rows they need.
>
> What would really help is some command line arguments that would take
> configure certain items, and then disable them from the pulldowns along
> the top.
>
> For instance, if the command --noscrollbar was issued, it would turn off
> the scroll bar and then now allow them to turn it back on again via the
> pulldowns.
>
> The more things that I could configure via the command line, the better.

A lot of this can already be disabled with KDE's KIOSK framework. By adding a 
[KDE Action Restrictions] group to your konsolerc file, you can disable individual actions. The following actions are used in konsole:

action/copy
action/paste
action/clear_terminal
action/reset_clear_terminal
action/find_history
action/find_next
action/find_previous
action/save_history
action/clear_history
action/clear_all_histories
action/detach_session
action/rename_session
action/monitor_activity
action/monitor_silence
action/send_input_to_all_sessions
action/show_menubar
action/show_toolbar
action/fullscreen
action/save_sessions_profile
action/close_session
action/quit
action/new_session
action/activate_menu
action/list_sessions

Since KDE 3.1.1 the following actions will be available as well:
action/bell
action/font
action/schema
action/size
action/scrollbar
action/keyboard


So if you don't want the user to toggle his scrollbar settings, you would add:

[KDE Action Restrictions]
action/scrollbar=false

Also usefull in this context is:

[KDE Action Restrictions]
shell_access=false

This disables all actions that start a new shell in konsole (such as 
action/new_session, but more complete) This requires KDE 3.1.0 or newer.

Note that if you change this in konsolerc it will apply to all konsoles. 
However you can copy konsolerc to e.g. my_konsolerc and then start konsole 
with "konsole --config my_konsolerc"