retitle 547314 RM: tsclient -- ROM; Unmaintained, better alternatives [PLEASE WAIT] thanks
Hi Emilio, hi Joseph, Emilio, have you seen that message from Joseph? Joseph, have you considered adopting the package yourself? - Lucas On 18/09/09 at 23:03 -0400, Joseph Miller wrote: > "Better" is pretty subjective and may be jumping the gun considering > tsclient has features lacking in grdc. I do not have the most current > version of grdc (I have 0.3.0), but the version that I have lacks a > fullscreen mode selection, sound redirection, keyboard features, remotely > mapping disk drive, remotely mapping printers, start program on connect, > motion events option, wm decorations, and attach to console. In grdc's > defense, grdc seems to have an option for compression lacking in tsclient. > > If grdc has included all of this functionality, then I agree, remove the > non-maintained tsclient. Is the problem that rdesktop's current version is > becoming difficult to compile on newer versions of Debian? If neither of > these, however, please remember that this package may not be the most > popular package, but for the people who use it - it is extremely important. > Removing a package that provides interoperability with other systems is a > very serious thing. I know that the underlying rdesktop is always > available, but that's not a simple replacement for tsclient. I wish that > tsclient was installed by default, but this is unlikely and probably not > practical considering it is not well-maintained. > > Full-disclosure: I recently wrote the patch to tsclient for printer > redirection (which I use every day) which just made it in the upstream but > hasn't been released. I would of course like to see this make it to a > distro. Most importantly, I would like this and the above-stated > functionality to be available. If grdc can do these things, I have no > objection whatsoever to removing tsclient. > > -Joseph Miller -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [email protected] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [email protected] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
