[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX: What is the file nxclient good for?

[Kent Schumacher]

I need to apologize for this - I was trying to answer a question asked 
by a friend off list and I realized I was oversimplifying and was 
speaking well beyond what I knew and thought I'd killed the message 
without ever sending it - I'm mortified to see it go out in public.

I am so sorry this went out on the list, and I apologize to anyone whom 
this affects adversely.

To anyone who reads this - what I wrote is completely inaccurate - 
please disregard it totally.



On 07/20/2007 08:45 AM, k1pfeifle at gmx.net wrote:
> Kent Schumacher wrote:
>> Fabian Franz is the main developer of the free versions of NX.
>>
>> Marcello Blancasio is a developer with Nomachine (I think).
>>
>> This little exchange is pretty indicative of why NX needs to be forked 
>> and why the commercial client and free server have problems interacting...
> 
> Dude -- who are you??
> 
> Your stupid outburst sounds like the *real* developers of the NX core
> technology (NoMachine) need to be punished and castigated by a fork be-
> cause there is something you don't like about it.
> 
> You don't seem to understand that FreeNX *still* relies for 99% of its
> functionality on the NoMachine-provided core libraries. FreeNX is a
> very thin layer of glue code that makes using NoMachine's GPL code more
> easily usable for users (otherwise they'd have to knit together each
> session by commandline means, involving half a dozen commands with
> many dozen of parameters (and many hundred of characters to be typed).
> 
> NoMachine's developers have contributed a thousand times more hours into
> FreeNX (via the NX core libs) than Fabian put into it. (And I mean the
> "thousand" literally, not just as a florid expression.)
> 
> "Forking" is not a thing which one does because of some temporary mood,
> or as a punishment for someone else. (And valid reasons pro, as well as
> contra to a fork I found in recent archives of this mailing list. Your
> post will not qualify for more than "an unaffected idiot chimes into a
> conversation of other people discussing their own work").
> 
> If you do it you need to be serious about it. And if there are benefits
> for users and developers. And if you are *able* to do the required work....
> 
> You think you can just root for and cheer along others to do work that
> you like to be done? That you yourself didn't do (for whatever reason,
> maybe no coding skills?) even so you think it is the most urgent thing
> to accomplish in the world?
> 
> Please, refrain from creating diversions and bad blood just for the fun
> of it.
> 
> NX is too valuable for everybody.
> 
> Boy, did your post annoy me...
> 
>> On 07/20/2007 08:00 AM, User Support for FreeNX Server and kNX Client wrote:
>>   
>>> Fabian Franz wrote:
>>>     
>>>> If we could, we would have done that a long time ago ...
>>>>
>>>> Well, it needs to be called nxclient, because nxagent is searching for that exact file in path with option dialog. I dunno why the hell they did not just call it nxdialog and then run it via nxclient ...
>>>>
>>>> Its just another one of those annoying things NX ships hardcoded with.
>>>>       
>>> I don't know where on earth you found that the path of nxclient binary
>>> is hardcoded. Please, could you point me to the code where it is done?
>>>
>>> The location of nxclient binary can be specified in the NX_CLIENT
>>> environment variable. Nothing constrains you to call it 'nxclient',
>>> it can be called as you like.
>>>
>>> Every time nxagent needs to display a dialog box, it uses nxcomp
>>> library, that retrieves the nxclient binary location from the
>>> NX_CLIENT variable.
>>>
>>> If you guys had read the code - instead of whining - as developers
>>> are supposed to do, you would have realized these things.
>>>
>>> We are becoming tired of guys spreading disinformation and FUD.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be better checking the facts, rather than talking about
>>> word of mouth?
>>>
>>> I hope the following article will help you:
>>>
>>> http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR07E00479
>>>
>>> Best Regards.
>>>
>>> /Marcello Blancasio.
>>>
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