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wiki:development:roadmap [2017/05/11 09:45] (current)
stefanbaur New section: NX-Libs (missing) features table
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-====== Development Planning ====== +====== ΞX2Go Developer Meetings ====== 
-  * [[wiki:development:planning:whiteboard]] +{{:wiki:development:x2go-mascot-ccc.png?nolink&100 |}} 
-  * [[wiki:development:planning:schedule]] +  * [[wiki:development:planning:start|Planning the next meeting]]. 
-  * [[wiki:development:planning:start]]+  * [[wiki:development:planning:meetings_list|Past ΞX2Go Developer Meetings]] 
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 ====== X2Go Roadmap ====== ====== X2Go Roadmap ======
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 At present, X2GoClient on OS X goes into an endless loop and has to be force-terminated after the second or third connection attempt. At present, X2GoClient on OS X goes into an endless loop and has to be force-terminated after the second or third connection attempt.
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 +Task assigned to: Mihai
  
 **Run multiple instances of X2GoClient**, or multiple sessions from one instance, all simultaneously (kind of how pyhoca-gui works) **Run multiple instances of X2GoClient**, or multiple sessions from one instance, all simultaneously (kind of how pyhoca-gui works)
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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).
  
-Steps +Steps: 
-  Fix Multi-Instance on Windows +  Fix Multi-Instance on Windows 
-  Write wrapper to turn Multi-Instance into Multi-Session mode (especially important for OS X, where Multi-Instance isn't supported)+  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 - with some help by Mike#2 for the Windows client
  
 === Prio #2 (not started yet) ===  === Prio #2 (not started yet) === 
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 Task assigned to: Stefan, aided by Mike#1 (hard to say, Mike#1 will coach Stefan for an equivalent of 4h to get things straight, no matter how long it takes) Task assigned to: Stefan, aided by Mike#1 (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+<del>**HTML5 Client**</del> tagged as unrealistic given current budget
  
 If budget remains, a HTML5 client would be nice. If budget remains, a HTML5 client would be nice.
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 //There seems to be a disagreement amongst the developers regarding how such a client should be implemented.// //There seems to be a disagreement amongst the developers regarding how such a client should be implemented.//
 +  - One option would be to copy what other remote solutions are using - which means sub-par performance compared to our native NX/X2Go speeds.
 +  - A from-scratch approach would bring native speeds, but is a time and money sinkhole.
  
 Task assigned to: <none yet> - could be Alex, Mihai, ...? Task assigned to: <none yet> - could be Alex, Mihai, ...?
  
  
-<del>**Alternative to NX-Rewrite**</del>tagged as unrealistic given current budget+<del>**Alternative to NX-Rewrite**</del> tagged as unrealistic given current budget
  
 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.
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 +==== first attempt at documenting missing NX-libs features for certain applications and desktop environments ====
 +^Feature/Application or DE^NX-libs Version^V. req'd for Gnome 3.14^V. req'd for KDE5 ^
 +|XServer: RANDR| | | |
 +|XServer: RENDER| | | |
 +|XServer: Composite| | | |
 +|XServer: GLX| | | |
 +|XServer: DRI| | | |
 +|XServer: BIGREQUESTS| | | |
 +|Client: libXrandr| | | |
 +|Client: libXrender| | | |
 +|Xinerama| | | |
 +|MESA| | | |
 +|VirtualGL| | | |
  
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