[X2Go-User] The future of x2gokdrive

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Alex,

On  Do 07 Mai 2020 15:29:56 CEST, Oleksandr Shneyder wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> Looks like my E-Mail brought some excitement into the list :) First of
> all it was not my intention, I just wanted to share with you some of my
> thoughts. Second, I don't think that we will have something ready before
> the end of the year (depending on the resources I'll have). For sure, if
> some one wants to work into the same direction, you are welcome. I also
> want to add some of my thoughts about NX and X2Go.
> NX is obsolete. It was obsolete many years ago. Xorg is becoming
> obsolete as well. And X2Go is already obsolete too, because we are
> sticking to this technologies way too long. Don't understand me wrong,
> those are great technologies, which will be used for many years more by
> some people and companies, we should not drop their support and we
> should not stop to improve them. But we also should not things like NX
> slow down our development. Because majority of the users don't want NX.
> They want to use modern desktops and modern applications. And they don't
> care, that NX works better with legacy desktops and legacy X11 apps on
> 256K network, because they are not using them anyway and they have at
> home in worse case 10M network and even on their cell phones they have a
> good Internet connection.
>
> @Stefan: I think it's great, that you finding sponsoring and it helps to
> support the project. But we also should not forget, to separate the
> wishes of our sponsors and our customers from that what is good for the
> project. We can't concentrate only on that what our sponsors want,
> because in this case at some point they'll be our only users. We should
> also think more about future and what should we do to win new users to
> the project.

All above: well said! I share your view on all points given.

> At the end I want to give you some points I think I will work on in the
> next one or two years:
>
> 1. Improvement of x2go kdrive: adaptive compression level, video
> compression for some regions, frame dropping, etc

Nice!

> 2. x2gokdrive client - HTML5, Using OpenGL for image composition

Nice!

> 3. Finally rewrite x2go client, multi session support, x2go kdrive
> client should be part of x2go client, etc.

Wait, for PyHoca-GUI, I'd love to have a standalone application. Maybe  
provide the x2gokdriveclient as a libqt<foobar> shared lib and have  
(a) a command line executable wrapped around it and (b) use it in X2Go  
Client for rendering.

Thanks+Greets,
Mike
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