[FreeNX-kNX] NX KDE integration

[Mario Fux]

Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 19.31 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:

Morning

Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed answer.

> On Saturday 18 December 2004 10:19, Mario Fux wrote:
> > If I'm informed correctly there is no integration into KDE 3.4 nor there
> > is the kNX client planed for it?
>
> the client will be moving into the extragear modules. this has a number of
> advantages, including the ability to do releases whenever appropriate
> rather than when KDE is released. this will allow the client to follow the
> server development schedule better. i'm waiting for the extragear
> rearrangement before moving it over, however.

IC, you mean the kdereview and kdeplayground stuff.

> > What about the integration in the KDE 4.0 release?
>
> for it to not be half-assed, the integration needs to occur in a number of
> places in kdelibs and kdebase. it means being able to know when we are in
> an NX session or not (both libs and apps using those libs), and it also
> means being able to use NX sessions as transparently as X-over-the-network
> can be. it means making kdesktop a lot more network aware than it is right
> now, etc, etc... this isn't a 6 month minor release project, really,
> especially since i'd prefer this to be done in such a way that it easily
> augmented with support for other protocols that may arise. this means the
> changes are fairly non-trivial. kde4 should be a good vehicle for this
> development.

IC

thx
Mario