Some clarifications to what I wrote. On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:31:01PM +0200, Alon Levy wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:15:52PM +0200, Timothy Sparg wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm interested in the possibilty of contributing a Java based client to > > the SPICE project. > > My long term goal would be to create a reusable viewer component - the > > same component could then be used to create an applet based viewer or a > > viewer embedded in a java application. > > I'm currently just perusing the SPICE protocol, but i suspect that it > > will take me a while to start getting my head around it. > > What are your views and thoughts as the SPICE developers, would you be > > interested in somebody working towards the goal of a java based client? > > Where should I get started learning the basics of the SPICE project? > > Regards > > Tim Sparg > > Sounds like something a lot of people could use. You have two source code > bases to look at, spicec and spice-gtk, for existing clients, though I suspect > the later is cleaner. spicec is pretty old, written in C++, spice-gtk is C > and a > year and a half old and the future client, for instance it is the only one > with support for usb redirection right now.
I meant the new usb redirection support that is entirely open sourced. > > The protocol is somewhat documented - the existing documentation is > unfortunately old and doesn't cover off screen surfaces. However it is still > mostly correct, so I'd start reading it, see documents link below. > > Main urls: > > documents - http://spice-space.org/documentation.html > but with the previous warning - some of it is old and false. > > source - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice > the clients are: > old client: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/ You want the "client" subdirectory, and also the "common" one. The server you can ignore. > (spicec is a place holder, the old client is meant to be moved > there eventually) > new client: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/ > > building/setup help - http://spice-space.org/page/DeveloperStartPage > > > _______________________________________________ > > Spice-devel mailing list > > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
