[FreeNX-kNX] Windows 98 Compatability

[Steve Bergman]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

>My 2 cents, NX is a great technology, but is has its problems, one 
>problem being communication with prospect clients.
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Well, while I'm in gripe mode... ;-/

One reason that NX has not seen a lot of deployments may go back to a 
lack of attention to detail.  The NX client implementation has a general 
flakiness about it.

To me, resuming sessions is a luxury item that I can live without.  My 
deployments are not for my own use, but for regular end users.  If you 
think it's a pain to recover your own sessions, imagine turning that 
problem loose on a bunch of end users, who don't even understand the 
concept of suspended sessions, who come to *you* when they just lost the 
document they were typing.  I would never even consider turning that 
feature on with nx at its present quality.

I've moved my users over from VNC to NX.  At first they were quite happy 
due to the speed increase.  But now they are beginning to get a bit 
gripey about NX's bugs.  e.g. in addition to the problems I have 
described in the last couple of days, the caps lock gets out of sync on 
a regular basis.  For the entire duration of the 1.4 client series, the 
/, *, -, +, and ENTER keys on the keypad did not work on Gnome 2.4.  I 
asked on the list over at !M and after a couple of days someone 
responded that it sounded like a key mapping problem. (Duh!?)

In fact, I came to think of the !M list as "that list where you can 
count on *not* getting a helpful answer".

If you want a good laugh sometime, do this:  While keeping the idea 
"It's not our fullt; NX is perfection itself!" firmly in mind, go read 
their entire knowledge base.  Its a hoot.  I don't think I have ever 
seen so many defensive answers collected in one repository.  (And it's 
not as time cosuming as it sounds, since their knowlege base only has 45 
items.

This is not to detract from the excellent quality of the core 
technology.  But without fit and finish, what good is it?

-Steve Bergman