Hello.

I've being implementing the ability to start rdp sessions on UME using
tsclient and rdesktop.
There are 2 issues I would like to discuss:
1) Right click.
As you know, right click is very important to windows, as a matter of
fact, some programs are very hard or even able to operate properly
without it. In devices like the Samsung Q1, it no big deal as a kind of
embedded mouse but what about pen only devices? This is usually handled
by functions like tap-and-hold, which we currently don't have.
2) Display space and paging.
As you know, the real state available on this kind of device is limited.
To help with that a paging function was added so one can open a session
with a bigger resolution than physically supported by the device and
page this viewport as necessary. This helps but brings an issue on how
to move the viewport. Again, on the Q1 or using a mouse it's easy as one
can use a combination of keys or both mouse buttons to do that but using
a stylus makes the things complicated as every click on the remote
desktop is valid for the rdp session and as such we can't use it to
trigger the paging function. One idea was to keep the marquee and use
it's menu do perform this function but tests indicated that to be
cumbersome and that takes too much space if you consider devices with
800x400 resolution specially as the marquee + the desktop borders + the
windows menu bar + the application's tool bar + menus + header leaves
almost no space left for the data itself so I decided would be best to
reclaim this space by using the whole screen as it was before.
So, I would like to hear your ideas on:
a) How to implement the right click
b) How to trigger the paging mode
Both without having a keyboard or a mouse-like device.
One idea I had was implement long click to trigger the right click menu
and automatic paging triggered when the cursor hits the borders.
Any takers?

Thanks.

Adilson.

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