Re: ANNOUNCE: Terminal Server Client 0.124

[Erick Woods <erick erick com>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 18:30, Erick Woods wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > 
> yeah, cvs is needed, but it's easy:
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html

Nice, but inadequate.  It shows me how to check stuff out, but I will need 
to know how to commit changes, branch the code and stuff like that, right?  
Remember, I am short on time and don't want to waste a lot of it learning 
new things right now.  a list of commands/tutorial for commits, etc. like 
the checkout stuff listed there would be a great addition.

> one of the biggest advantages on having it in GNOME CVS is that you'll
> get far more translations from the GNOME Translation team.

That would be nice.

> in gnome-network we detect the programs at run-time, at least in some
> cases, for not having to depend on them. But we still depend on some
> things, like, iirc, *vncviewer. So it's ok to me if we depend on
> rdesktop, at least from a packaging point of view.

tsclient detects things at runtime, too.  It disables options for clients 
that are unavailable.  i have the dep on rdesktop because it was designed 
for that and because it would be foolish to install it and not have at 
least one protocol enabled.

> it looks ok to me as it is. Of course, there are sure things to
> fix/change, but I dont think a UI restructure is needed at all.

That's good.  There have been folks (I won't name them) that have insisted 
on major changes to the UI and some of them have really been abrasive.  
Not cool, but it wasn't you, so I won't say anymore.

> hmm, what were those changes to make it HIG-compliant that you dont want
> to do?

Most of those changes are complete.  The big one that is not is that 
someone insisted that all the little images and banner image at the top be 
removed for HIG compliance.  That is pure crap and isn't going to happen.  
One other change that will likely happen before I do another release is to 
scrap the compact/full mode stuff and just use the full mode.  The compact 
mode is useless with protocols other than rdp and is slightly incomplete 
and flakey.  It would be a lot better for maintainability to scrap the 
compact mode and I plan on doing that.  Other than that, the code isn't 
the greatest, but it is pretty clean and stable.

Thanks,

Erick Woods
erick gnomepro com
http://www.gnomepro.com/