I thought this was important enough to open a new thread.
On 16 May 2010 16:27, Heinz-M. Graesing <x2go-dev@x2go.org> wrote:
Hello Jo-Erlend,
Am 15.05.2010 14:45, schrieb Jo-Erlend Schinstad:
Could you elaborate a bit on the Firefox plugin? Will it be something like Nomachines NX Web Companion that enables you to download and install a userspace NX client and use it directly from the web? Will this plugin work on all platforms?
The x2goplugin is an firefox plugin and uses the xpi (firefox addon) installation routine. It makes it possible to embedd x2go session into websites itself or to show them outside the browser in an own window. Sessions can be resized - even inside the website - for example inside a resizeable <div></div>
And you actually do mean the NX session, not just the login/installer dialog like NX Web Companion? Wow. :)
It is executed in userspace. All components will be inside the extensions directory. It will be listed as add on and can easily be removed. It'll be available for windows 32 and linux 64 and 32 bit. I don't know at the moment if the macOS version will be possible - maybe as a reduced version (no pulseaudio, no website embedding,...)
It would be nice to have Mac OS too, but it's not very important to me. But you're saying PulseAudio would work nicely in Windows as well, so you can use two-way audio for VoIP, etc?
The configuration can be delivered via the webserver (as an *.x2go file) and every feature of x2go is supported (bidirectional audio, sshfs, x2goprint,...).
Then I could make it so that the user only sees a password prompt, or could I even make it so that as long as they're logged into my website using OpenID, then the session would start automatically?
We'll provide a *.js file which can ask the user to install the plugin. As it is at the moment not possible to host the plugin (only add ons)on the mozilla site, we'll make it accessible on our site.
Would it also be possible to host the plugin on our own apache sites without too much trouble?
I hope this will help - feel free to ask again.
Thank you, just one more thing. When will it be available, and can you please make it yesterday? :) This sounds awesome!
Thanks again.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad