[X2go-Dev] New session param for .x2goclient/sessions file (was Re: Change Title of Frontend of Pyhoca)

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Alex,

On Mi 30 Nov 2011 13:35:38 CET Oleksandr Shneyder wrote:

> Am 30.11.2011 13:30, schrieb Mike Gabriel:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> On Mi 30 Nov 2011 13:15:19 CET Oleksandr Shneyder wrote:
>>
>>> I don't like it. As result you can get a wrong behaviour of a client, if
>>> you starting a session with new client and resuming it with old one. I
>>> don't think, that this feature is important enough to break
>>> compatibility with old versions of clients.
>>>
>>
>> I have reverted the server-side changes in x2gostartagent. Instead, I
>> have changed x2gostartagent in a way that it will check for the
>> x2gofeature X2GO_FEATURE_SESSIONTITLE and if that is available it will
>> call a subscript.
>>
>> This feature X2GO_FEATURE_SESSIONTITL and the corresponding subscript
>> ,,x2gosessiontitle'' are part of a new extension package I have added to
>> x2goserver and called: x2goserver-pyhoca, an add-on package to improve
>> functionality of pyhoca-gui and pyhoca-cli. This package will only be
>> suggested by the core x2goserver package, so it will not be installed if
>> people do not actively select it for installation.
>>
>> This package currently contains two scripts only used by pyhoca:
>>
>>   x2gosessiontitle
>>   x2gosetkeyboard
>>
>> The x2gosessiontitle subscript will then only generate a custom session
>> title if the env var X2GO_FEATURE_SESSIONTITLE is set to ,,enabled''.
>> This has to be done from the client when launching x2gostartagent.
>>
>> I hope this approach allows us to keep the session title functionality
>> and stay also compatible with old client implementations and between
>> pyhoca and x2goclient.
>>
>> Let me know what you think,
>> Mike
>>
>
> it sounds ok for me.

That's cool! Ok... I need to do some more testing... I'll let you know  
once the code in Git HEAD is stable again.

Mike

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