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wiki:development:new-feature-brainstorming [2014/06/26 14:02] stefanbaur Fixed sorting of items (client stuff belongs into client category, etc) |
wiki:development:new-feature-brainstorming [2016/05/02 10:32] stefanbaur [Rewrite of NX Agent/X2Go Agent] |
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====== New features for X2Go ====== | ====== New features for X2Go ====== | ||
- | Below you find a list of new code projects that we are interested in, but noone has started working on them, yet. | + | Below you find a list of new code projects that we are interested in, but no one has started working on them, yet. |
===== X2Go Client ===== | ===== X2Go Client ===== | ||
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* This also contains the option to make sound unidirectional, | * This also contains the option to make sound unidirectional, | ||
* The code needs to be rebased against the current mainline X2Go client | * The code needs to be rebased against the current mainline X2Go client | ||
- | * Mihai (ionic) | + | * Mihai (ionic) is working on this as time permits, sponsored by an anonymous donor via BAUR-ITCS. Additional donations always welcome, though, as it turned out to be way more work than expected. |
- | * Currently available | + | |
==== Android Client ==== | ==== Android Client ==== | ||
- | * TheQVD project has an NX based remote desktop solution that uses nxproxy natively on Android (https:// | + | * TheQVD project has an NX based remote desktop solution that uses nxproxy natively on Android (https:// |
* It should be easy to mix and match this with our codebase to create a functioning Android X2Go client. (According to Mike#1) | * It should be easy to mix and match this with our codebase to create a functioning Android X2Go client. (According to Mike#1) | ||
+ | * Here's a technology preview of how you can run X2Goclient on Android - no root required, but does have quite a few limitations: | ||
===== X2Go Server ====== | ===== X2Go Server ====== | ||
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* An HTML5 Client could help to build native apps and render sessions on a [[https:// | * An HTML5 Client could help to build native apps and render sessions on a [[https:// | ||
* In the first step, it would be possible to use existing vnc< | * In the first step, it would be possible to use existing vnc< | ||
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+ | ==== Better sound support, Part 2 ==== | ||
+ | * While X data is compressed depending on the settings chosen in the client (available bandwidth and whatnot), no such compression takes place for the audio stream | ||
+ | * Changing/ | ||
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+ | ===== NX-Libs ===== | ||
==== Rewrite of NX Agent/X2Go Agent ==== | ==== Rewrite of NX Agent/X2Go Agent ==== | ||
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* Currently, NX Agent/X2Go Agent is based on old X-Server code | * Currently, NX Agent/X2Go Agent is based on old X-Server code | ||
* This needs to be rewritten so it can be built against current X.org | * This needs to be rewritten so it can be built against current X.org | ||
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* estimated cost at regular hourly rates of an average coder: 50.000 EUR | * estimated cost at regular hourly rates of an average coder: 50.000 EUR | ||
* Crowdfunding planned, volunteers (both coders and funders) welcome | * Crowdfunding planned, volunteers (both coders and funders) welcome | ||
- | * so far, there' | + | * Status update: |
- | + | * This is now Work in Progress | |
- | ==== Better sound support, Part 2 ==== | + | * NX-Rewrite |
- | | + | * currently sponsored by Qindel (http://www.qindel.com/ |
- | * Changing/fixing this may mean writing a wrapper around/a plugin to pulseaudio, or ditching PulseAudio altogether for some other sound system (which needs to be available | + | * Worked |
- | + | * ETA: August 2017 | |
- | ===== NX-Libs ===== | + | |
==== Upgrade GLX extension in NX (redistributed) ==== | ==== Upgrade GLX extension in NX (redistributed) ==== | ||
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* This coding project would be a start to gradually update the Xserver extensions shipped with NX | * This coding project would be a start to gradually update the Xserver extensions shipped with NX | ||
* During this project you will get a deep insight into Xserver code. You need good C and Cplusplus skills to start this code project. You have to be a magician with C coding debugging tools!!! | * During this project you will get a deep insight into Xserver code. You need good C and Cplusplus skills to start this code project. You have to be a magician with C coding debugging tools!!! | ||
+ | * Status update: | ||
+ | * This will hopefully be fixed in " | ||
===== Desktop Bindings ===== | ===== Desktop Bindings ===== |