On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Marc-André Moreau <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Daren Krive <daren.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Marc, >> >> Thanks for your reply. I wish I could be of more use to a project like >> this. I am a fairly accomplished .NET developer (don't hate me) writing >> high-level business applications (invoicing, inventory control, wms, etc) >> with MS-SQL backends. But this kind of project seems a little out of my >> usual zone. >> >> Would it not be possible to implement a GTK+ "wrapper" around the core >> application? That way people could install the main package and get a >> standard X11 window like they do now or they could install the GTK version >> and get the "connection bar" and perhaps a few other "goodies". >> >> Just some thoughts... not sure what would be involved. Please excuse my >> ignorance :-) > > I've been thinking for a while of writing a Gtk# front-end for FreeRDP. > Unfortunately, before we reach the point where FreeRDP will be entirely > usable from C#, it's going to take a while. Maybe there would be a way to > wrap xfreerdp with a Gtk# UI, but I'm not sure. The best would be to have > the actual UI written in C#.
Thought about Remmina? >> >> Regards, >> Daren >> >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Marc-André Moreau >> <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Daren, >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Daren Krive <daren.kr...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I hope this isn't out of place on this list. As someone responsible for >>>> administering a good number of Windows servers throughout the GTA I am a >>>> pretty heavy user of FreeRDP and previously rdestkop. I switched to using >>>> FreeRDP for all the obvious reasons but mostly because it can connect to >>>> servers that are using SSL. >>> >>> :) >>>> >>>> One thing however... Is is possible for there to be an "connection bar" >>>> that slides down from the top (or bottom) of the screen like mstsc.exe >>>> does? This would be really helpful when running full-screen sessions. >>>> >>>> Right now I use Ctrl+Alt+Enter to break out of the full-screen session >>>> and minimize the window. However sometimes it seems like a key is >>>> "sticking" and pressing Enter by itself back inside the restored >>>> full-screen >>>> session causes the session to break out into a window again. My keys are >>>> not physically sticking but if I tap Ctrl and Alt separately by themselves >>>> a >>>> few times this seems to fix the problem. >>> >>> That's most likely a bug >>>> >>>> Even if this worked perfectly I find the Ctrl+Alt+Enter thing awkward >>>> and the connection bar would be an ideal solution I think. Perhaps one >>>> that >>>> could be optionally disabled for those who do not want it. >>> >>> I agree Ctrl+Alt+Enter is not the best, but we have limitations due to >>> the fact that xfreerdp depends on X11 only. Adding a connection bar with >>> pure X11 is not trivial, we'd need to use something else like Gtk+ or Qt. >>> Since you're managing a lot of servers, maybe that adding the server name >>> to the title of the window would help? Would there be a possible improvement >>> using keyboard shortcuts instead of the title bar? I'll have to check but I >>> think current window decorations aren't brought back when going out of the >>> fullscreen mode, that's something to fix. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Daren >>>> >>>> -- Niels Horn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
