Totally makes sense - I appreciate the response! On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 10:27 AM Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 9:39 AM Justin Kocian <jus...@icanotes.com.invalid > > > wrote: > > > Hey everyone, > > > > I've put together a simple Electron based client for Guacamole to meet > some > > needs for my team (Ctrl+W needs to work in terminals, and they just > prefer > > to not use their browser for their RDP connections). Overall it seems to > be > > working well. That being said, is there any specific reason why I > shouldn't > > do this? Is there some huge red flag that I'm missing? > > > > > No, there's no specific reason why you shouldn't do this - one of the > benefits to open source software, like Guacamole, is that you can take the > code and use it to suit your needs. If this achieves that goal for you and > works, then that's great, and if you're willing to share links for the > code, there may be others who would be interested in using it, contributing > to it, etc. > > That said, while I understand the benefit of what you're trying to achieve, > I'm not sure there would be support for making that part of the mainstream > Guacamole project, as one of the project's stated goals is to be > clientless, with the exception of a web browser. Implementing an > Electron-based client goes beyond that and introduces some additional > complexity with respect to client updates and additional software required > to support it. > > -Nick >
