On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 18:58 +0000, Eli K. wrote:
Hello x2go list,
I've added one of my not so important mail accounts to this list to share my opinion about nx based development in the future. I don't like mailing lists because they only collect spam (to add my opinion to a already discussed topic). I've read some of the mesages here and I've taken a look to this project. I really don't think this is a good idea to work on a not compatible nx server. There are already enough free servers and clients in the world and we all should try to save a amount of compatibility to all projects. There is also a plugin for mozilla (moznx) so you won't need to develop a own. Although i like the idea of the file transport and print module of x2go (pulseaudio too is already possible with opennx). If you would change to python, i would help you to get things to work with neatx/freenx. Then you too would have no problem with the packaging, because everything you need is already done. What do you think about at minimum getting those interesting features build up in external programms, so you can use it with all nx servers (or even vncs)?
<Snip> I can't speak for the developers but I think the goal is to develop something broader than any of the NX projects. I suppose it's a bit like I've taken great open source projects like iptables, iproute2, openswan, and openvpn and built a new project for a powerful network security framework in the ISCS project (iscs.sourceforge.net). So Heinz and Oleksandr have taken the NX libraries, pulseaudio, sshfs, openldap, etc., and combined them into a broader project.
We had originally planned to use NoMachine for our new company but were frustrated with the sound problems. We thought about starting a new project to combine technologies including NX to do what we needed to do but that's when we stumbled across X2Go. We haven't looked back.
I think the lack of compatibility is not about isolationism but simply because the goals of the project are bigger than simply an NX client/server. At least that's my take - John