Hallo Mike,
I very glad that you starting to work on new project related to X2Go.
However, I'm not sure, that it is a right place to discuss such projects. This is a "X2go-dev" list. It mean, that here is all about developing of X2Go. As you can see on http://www.x2go.org, X2Go components are: x2goclient/plugin, x2goserver, x2gothinclient, x2goadmintools.
I am personally very glad, that there are new interesting projects related to x2go and I hope that we will have even more such projects in future, but I also think, that discussion of such projects in X2Go-dev list is off-topic.
Possible, we should create a mailing list for discussing of x2go related projects such pyHoca and python-x2goserver API. What are you think about it?
Regards, alex
Am 13.05.2011 00:29, schrieb Mike Gabriel:
hi all, hi esp. devs,
the LinDix company in the Netherlands has asked me to work on another project in the context of X2go.
A couple of weeks ago we discussed possibilities of approaching the usage of X2go in SaaS environemts (that is: not ,,Desktop as a Serice'', but Software as a Service, meaning single, dedicated applications in this context).
The vision is:
(a) to have a server-side X2goSSH service similar to OpenSSH that can be configured via ACLs so that remote application can be granted/denied to specific users and/or specific groups. Opposed to OpenSSH this X2go service will be able to restrict the execution of remote (server-side) commands very pedantically.
(b) to provider X2go remote apps through the programmes' menu on your local desktop
In this mail I will address vision (b) in detail:
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For embedding X2go Apps (single remote application provided via X2go in rootless mode) into the desktop application menu or for providing them as desktop links the basic ideas could be listed as follows:
o all desktop links / menu links to X2go apps will launch an instance of pyhoca-gui o only the first click on such an X2go app will load the full pyhoca-gui application (as first pyhoca-gui instance) o all other clicks will launch pyhoca-gui in interprocess-communication mode
- every secondly started pyhoca-gui will notify the firstly started pyhoca-gui about what to do - this will probably be approached via UDP communication (so thatit will be available on Windows as well, no unix file sockets on Windows)
o the first pyhoca-gui instance will listen to incoming requests and process them, such as
- connect to another server and... - (...) start application A or B or CWith X2go embedded apps it will be possible to compose a desktop as a mixture of locally installed applications and remote (SaaS) applications on Windows and Linux.
Greetings + Request for Comments, Mike
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