Re: ANNOUNCE: Terminal Server Client 0.124

[Mark Finlay <sisob-lists tuxfamily org>]

also http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 19:34, Erick Woods wrote:
> 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/
> 
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