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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KTelnet for 2.0
From:       Cristian Tibirna <tibirna () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-12-13 1:00:45
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On Tuesday 12 December 2000 13:34, Richard Moore wrote:
> http://www.spaghetti-code.de/software/linux/ktelnet/
>
> Now that there's a 2.0 version of this app, how about adding it
> to kdenetwork?

I followed the rather large discussion on this topic and I came to the 
conclusion people don't get what this app is about.

It is really a nice useful tool. For people that have to access many 
machines, all at a time, on a daily basis. Yes, there are *lots* of this kind 
of users around (sys admins, for one category).

Its main strenght and usefulness comes not from it supporting telnet. But 
from it allowing some sort of automatic config of the connecting client 
(terminal etc.) based on which connection is achieved. This allows for 
color/font/title differentiations between multiple open sessions.

OK, this is what Martin (Martin Häfner), the author of KTelnet - a very nice 
person that allowed and trusted me to help him with the KDE-1 version of this 
app - did with KTelnet even in KDE-1 versions. What he was looking for even 
then, and what he seems to have achieved now in an amazingly short time, is a 
way of modularizing the program so that, either by scripting, or by compiled 
modules, complex actions be taken at connection time. He was needing this for 
tediously repetitive connection procedures he was doing over firewalls etc. 
(good old free software principle: he wrote it because he needed it).

The application was naturally popular in KDE-1 (even if not included with the 
main packages) and I've got quite some mail (dunno about Martin, but I 
believe that him too). 

I believe this is a nice app and it would be a gesture of justice to have it 
added to kdenetwork. NOTE: this report is purely altruistic and should be 
taken only as a report from a pleased user, as I'm no more involved in 
KTelnet2 code. Martin did all by himself.

CT

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