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wiki:development:roadmap [2015/01/26 10:35]
stefanbaur Sponsored Improvement Requests
wiki:development:roadmap [2015/02/05 08:49]
stefanbaur
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 === Prio #1 (not started yet) === === Prio #1 (not started yet) ===
 +**Fix Lockup of OS X client when running multiple sessions //sequentially//**
 +
 **Run multiple instances of X2GoClient**, or multiple sessions from one instance, all simultaneously (kind of how pyhoca-gui works) - must work on **Run multiple instances of X2GoClient**, or multiple sessions from one instance, all simultaneously (kind of how pyhoca-gui works) - must work on
   * Windows   * Windows
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   * Linux (probably already does)   * Linux (probably already does)
  
-would love to see X2GoClient gain the multi-session feature from PyHoCa.  In fact, the GUI design of the taskbar icon's context menu hasn't made sense from the start, if X2GoClient is and will always be+Stefan would love to see X2GoClient gain the multi-session feature from PyHoCa.  In fact, the GUI design of the taskbar icon's context menu hasn't made sense from the start, if X2GoClient is and will always be
 limited to one session.   limited to one session.  
 +
 +Please look at the following screenshots/mockups for a display of the current situation and two alternatives:
 +^ X2GoClient current look ^ X2GoClient single-session ^ X2GoClient multi-session ^
 +| {{:wiki:development:x2goclient-current-look-notgood.png?200|}} | {{:wiki:development:x2goclient-if-limited-to-one-session.png?200|}} | {{:wiki:development:x2goclient-multiple-sessions.png?200|}} |
  
 If that is impossible, we need to make sure that multiple instances of x2goclient can co-exist in RAM. If that is impossible, we need to make sure that multiple instances of x2goclient can co-exist in RAM.
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 h1 has a design in mind that addresses multi-sesson support in one X2Go Client instance (also x2goclient2.git on git.x2go.org is capable of that, but at the moment it is half-baked and probably temporarily discontinued). h1 has a design in mind that addresses multi-sesson support in one X2Go Client instance (also x2goclient2.git on git.x2go.org is capable of that, but at the moment it is half-baked and probably temporarily discontinued).
 +
 +Step 1: Fix Multi-Instance on Windows
 +Step 2: Write wrapper to turn Multi-Instance into Multi-Session mode (especially important for OS X, where Multi-Instance isn't supported)
  
 Task assigned to: Mihai, Mihai, and again, Mihai Task assigned to: Mihai, Mihai, and again, Mihai
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 **Improve x2go-broker functionality (shadowing, stable release)** **Improve x2go-broker functionality (shadowing, stable release)**
  
-Task assigned to: Mike#1+Task assigned to: Mike#(8h)
  
  
 **Improve x2go-broker documentation** **Improve x2go-broker documentation**
  
-Task assigned to: Mike#1, Stefan+Task assigned to: Mike#1, Stefan (12-16h)
  
  
 **General improvement on documentation** **General improvement on documentation**
  
-Task assigned to: Stefan, aided by Mike#1+Task assigned to: Stefan, aided by Mike#(hard to say, Mike#1 will coach Stefan for an equivalent of 4h to get things straight, no matter how long it takes) 
 + 
 +<del>**HTML5 Client**</del>tagged as unrealistic given current budget 
 + 
 +If budget remains, a HTML5 client would be nice. 
 +//There seems to be a disagreement amongst the developers regarding how such a client should be implemented.// 
 + 
 +Task assigned to: <none yet> - could be Alex, Mihai, ...? 
  
 +<del>**Alternative to NX-Rewrite**</del>tagged as unrealistic given current budget
  
-**Alternative to NX-Rewrite** 
 h1 has some ideas what other F/LOSS codebases might be suitable as a time- and money-saving alternative to doing the NX-Rewrite. h1 has some ideas what other F/LOSS codebases might be suitable as a time- and money-saving alternative to doing the NX-Rewrite.
 He should mention them on x2go-dev to get more feedback, then a competent C/C++ coder should look at the alternatives and evaluate them for suitability. He should mention them on x2go-dev to get more feedback, then a competent C/C++ coder should look at the alternatives and evaluate them for suitability.
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