[X2go-dev] PyHoca-GUI (graphical Python X2go client) ready for testing, only for the braves...

[Gerry Reno]

On 12/12/2010 11:33 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Fr 10 Dez 2010 12:33:17 CET Mike Gabriel wrote:
>
>> I have just packaged our (Dick Kniep and Mike Gabriel, supported by
>> feedback and design items from Heinz and Alex) first draft of the
>> graphical X2go client ,,Pyhoca-GUI''. The development currently is
>> progressing very fast as it gets sponsored by Dick's company
>> lindix.nl. Thanks a lot for that!!!
>>
>> You can download the package (and dependencies) for testing from here
>> (please choose your distro and version):
>>
>> deb http://packages.das-netzwerkteam.de/debian squeeze main
>> deb http://packages.das-netzwerkteam.de/debian sid main
>> deb http://packages.das-netzwerkteam.de/ubuntu lucid main
>> deb http://packages.das-netzwerkteam.de/ubuntu maverick main
>>
>> After adding one of the above lines, simply do:
>>
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get install pyhoca-gui
>
> Since this announcement post quite a few things have happened:
>
>   o Brian Mullan made me aware of the GCONF backend of x2goclient_gtk.
> I only
>     worked with the Qt x2goclient and was not aware of the GTK client
> using a
>     different config backend (GCONF). Currently these GCONF session
> profiles
>     are not seen by pyhoca-gui, only plaintext session profiles in
>     ~/.x2goclient/sessions are seen.
>
>     If you want to test pyhoca-gui, please install x2goclient (Qt
> version),
>     create a session profile from there and then run pyhoca-gui.
>
>     A gconf backend (as well as a Windows registry backend for the
> Windows
>     version) is on the TODO list, but without a milestone yet.
>
>   o On Friday night I added RDP-through-X2go-Proxy support into
> PyHoca-GUI.
>     Thus, you can now also run as RDP configured sessions from PyHoca-GUI
>
>   o For Ubuntu lucid (and maybe also Debian squeeze) there was a
> dependency
>     problem with my backported python-gevent package. This has also
> been fixed.
>
> Greets,
> Mike
>
Mike,
    I thought that Heinz said the GTK client was deprecated and that all
new development would be with the Qt client.  Has that changed?

Regards,
Gerry