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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] KRDC
From:       Jaison Lee <lee.jaison () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-11-03 17:33:32
Message-ID: 2d720bd30511030933x6dd14da9vc592ce90e23072a3 () mail ! gmail ! com
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I have a backup plan in case absolutely nothing happens with it by the
time KDE4 is about to roll:

The RDC portion is just a front-end already, so I was going to rip out
all the VNC code and just make it a front-end, too. There are plenty
of existing VNC apps that run rings around what KRDC can do now.
Providing support for several of them shouldn't be a problem. Then it
will just sort-of be a generic remote desktop front-end program.

The need to install something else will probably elicit some squeels
from users, but I really don't know what else to do. It's not
attracting the attention it needs and it is really starting to get
behind. Just run any other VNC app and you can see how poorly KRDC
holds up.

Plenty of time to worry about that tho... Hopefully someone will show
up in the meantime.


On 11/3/05, Sivert Berg <siveberg@online.no> wrote:
> Onsdag 02 november 2005 20:21, skrev Jaison Lee:
> > > I guess it's now up to the krdc maintainer to agree on the
> > > part-ification, but looking at the authors list, it's Tim Jansen, who
> > > told me he dropped out of KDE some time ago iirc.... so not much input
> > > there I guess. Well, once the factory stuff is cleaned up I'll apply the
> > > patch, then.
> >
> > KRDC is in fact completely unmaintained at present. Tim has been open
> > and communicative, but has made it clear he does not plan on doing
> > anything with KRDC at this point. Sivert himself had mentioned
> > interest in taking this over a little while ago. Did you change your
> > mind, Sivert?
> >
> > Unless someone picks it up soon I think it's future is bleak. It needs
> > a lot of work and the NX stuff may just supercede it altogether. I
> > considered picking it up myself when I put in the KWallet code, but I
> > don't have access to rdc servers to test those areas, nor do I have
> > sufficient vnc know-how.
>
> Well, after a little thinking (and looking at all the bugs reported) I found
> out I didn't have the time required to maintain KRDC, and also I don't know
> enough about VNC. It is a cool tool though, and it would be sad if it got no
> future.
>
> Cheers,
> Sivert Berg
>
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