[FreeNX-kNX] [FreeNX and "Google Summer of Code"] Proposal 8: "KDE awareness of NX session"

[Kurt Pfeifle]

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Proposal 8: 
Bridging the gap between the NX server and the hosted environment
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Currently the applications being hosted in an NX session are not 
aware of that condition. Usually this does not matter in the least, 
but there are several occasions when such information would be 
invaluable.
 
One example is in the KDE log out dialog. If the KDE session was 
aware that it was being run in an NX environment (or any environment 
which supports session suspension) a "Suspend Session" button should 
be provided in the log out dialog that does just that.
 
This project would entail creating an extensible mechanism for the 
FreeNX server to signal to the environment it is hosting that NX 
capabilities are available. The information that needs to be 
communicated includes the availability of NX and whether or not 
session suspension is supported, though it should not by design be 
limited to being able to only support those two bits of information.
 
To complete this bounty, at least two separate uses of this 
information in the KDE desktop must be implemented, one of which will 
be a Suspend Session button in the KDE log out dialog that appears 
only when NX suspend capabilities are available with the second usage 
up to the imagination and creativity of the developer.

Mentors: Aaron J. Seigo, Kurt Pfeifle

Reply ASAP if you are interested, so you can get approval before the
14th of June.