Re: "icon on the desktop" access to VCL

[Art Vandenberg]

Georgia State is likely interested in this IF it doesn't reduce security. I presume icon would be clickable and then one VIOLA, logged in? If so, there is presumably no login per se. Perhaps some time-out on the ICON would be valuable then - e.g. you have "x minutes" to click or else (something happens... goes away? expires? prompts for PW after all?) Maybe recommended only where there is at least some login (to VCL menu at least) so there is a reasonable accountability?

Art


On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Josh Thompson wrote:

I am going to send this to our engineers and ask for their input (I think the read the posts, but will be direct.)

I've been hearing interest in an "icon on the desktop" type of access to VCL. The idea being that you could have some kind of broker script/ app that

can be run which will interact with the VCL API to create a VCL

system (ideally without requiring the user to log in to the reserved
system). That app could then just be launched through an icon to gain
access to a VCL provisioned system.


useful to others.

I'm starting this thread to start gathering information on who is

also like to know if anyone would be interested in helping with the
development of it.


-requirements you would have
-how you would envision it to work
-any interest in development of it

Thanks,
Josh
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Josh Thompson
VCL Developer
North Carolina State University

reservation, wait on it to be deployed, and then connect to the reserved Several years ago, I wrote something along the lines of this in python/tk. That was more of a proof of concept and would need a good bit of work to be interested in this idea and what requirements you would have for it. I'd So, if you have any interest in this, please reply to this thread with

Art Vandenberg
Account Manager/Research Function
Customer Relations, IS&T
Information Systems & Technology
Georgia State University
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MS Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech
MVA Painting & Drawing, Georgia State
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