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

[From: Rui Carmo]

There were a couple of people going for it at the time I wrote this:

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2005-11-27

I got some e-mail from them, but despite a few notes on the Maemo  
Wiki, there wasn't much follow-up (or else I missed it). Still, it's  
only been a month. :)

Rui Carmo
(still without a 770 or a way to buy one in Portugal)

On Dec 29, 2005, at 19:13, John B. Holmblad wrote:

> 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?
> Best Regards,
>
> John Holmblad
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> Aaron Levinson wrote:
>> I'm pleased to announce the first version of a VNC Viewer maemo port.
>> Some other developers have announced ports of VNC in the past, but  
>> these
>> were strictly builds of the RealVNC vncviewer client and were not
>> GTK/maemo software applications.  As such, they lacked certain GTK/ 
>> maemo
>> amenities, the biggest being no text input methods.
>>
>> This new port is a true GTK/maemo port that basically provides  
>> most of the
>> support that one might expect from a maemo-ized VNC viewer.  I'm  
>> still
>> working on adding some features, and there certainly is room for
>> optimizations, but I'm pretty happy with the way it has turned out  
>> so far.
>>
>> It's available at http://www.aracnet.com/~alevinsn/ 
>> vncviewer_0.1_arm.deb .
>>
>> Here's some brief documentation:
>> -- Press the Select/Confirm button to turn on and off the text input 
>> method window (just like in xterm).
>> -- Use the Zoom out (-) button for middle mouse button clicks.
>> -- Use the Zoom in (+) button for right mouse button clicks.
>> -- Use the Cancel/Close button to send an Esc key.
>> -- The other hardware buttons operate similar to how they operate in
>> xterm.
>> -- Turn on/off the toolbar from the View menu.
>> -- It is possible to double-click, but it might require a little 
>> practice/multiple attempts.
>>
>> I'm planning on writing one or more e-mails concerning my porting
>> experiences.  Hopefully, the information in these e-mails will be  
>> useful
>> to some.  I'll also be making the source code available once I  
>> clean it up
>> a bit more.
>>
>> Aaron Levinson
>>
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