[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] VNC Viewer maemo port now available

[From: Aaron Levinson]

I examined the source code for rdesktop over the weekend, and it looks
like the port should be relatively straightforward.  In rdesktop, the user
interface is implemented separately from the underlying protocol, so it's
just a matter of adding a new user interface implementation.  At least,
this is the way it appeared to me from a cursory glance at the code.  I
was thinking about working on this port myself.  If I were to port
rdesktop, I would start with the Qt UI implementation and convert it to
GTK/maemo.  In addition, some of what I did for the VNC port could easily 
be adapted towards an rdesktop port.

However, at the ApplicationCatalogWip page on the maemo Wiki, someone 
(Simon Guerrero) has added an entry for rdesktop, indicating that he is 
currently restructuing the code to support the Hildon UI and that the port 
is in its very early days.  Not sure what the proper protocol is for this 
sort of thing, when someone else has already announced that a port is 
in progress....

Anyway, I should probably focus on improving the VNC viewer port instead 
of tackling a new project :-)

Aaron

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Adilson Oliveira wrote:

> John B. Holmblad escreveu:
> > Aaron,
> > 
> > that is great news. I am also interested in knowing whether anyone has
> > ported RDesktop to GTK/Maemo. I am interested in having interoperability
> > with Microsoft Windows environments using the Remote Desktop Protocol
> > (RDP). Do you know if anyone is working on this?
> 
> Yes, this is one thing that I'm about to start but I'm waiting for my
> 770 to arrive :(
> 
> []s
> 
> Adilson.
>