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  • iTALC 1.0.10 released

    iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool which lets you view and control computers in your labs and interact with students in a modern way. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

    Version 1.0.10 is a maintainance release of the 1.0.x series. It fixes lots of bugs and features an improved user interface. Furthermore incompatibilities with recent Linux systems, recent versions of autotools and recent version of Qt have been fixed.

    The Windows version ships with the latest libraries such as Qt 4.6.3, libjpeg-v8 and zlib 1.2.5 and has been built using GCC 4.5. Furthermore there's now a nice NSIS-based installer which also includes an uninstaller.


    Improvements:

    * Added NSIS script for building an iTALC installer
    * Added support for languages written right-to-left
    * IMA: rewrote top level UI and added new toolbar style
    * IMA: updated and improved splash screen
    * IMA: Implemented Toggle Autoview
    * IMA/ClassroomManager: sort items numerically where appropriate
    * ICA/Win32: Applied patch by James Mitchell for improved username detection
    * ICA/Win32/VncInstHandler: use different name for VNC instance mutex (allows to run other VNC software in parallel)
    * ICA/Win32/TightVNC: updated to SVN revision 3642
    * ICA/Win32/TightVNC: also grab layered (semi-transparent) windows
    * ICA/Win32/ScreenLock: open new desktop and lock it
    * ICA/Linux/x11vnc: synced with libvncserver Git repository
    * Updated localization files:
    - Czech
    - French
    - German
    - Norwegian
    - Slovakian
    - Ukrainian
    - Spanish
    * Added localization files
    - Catalan
    - Hebrew
    - Turkish
    * Localization files: merged all translations of each language into one file


    Bugfixes:

    * Allow remote login without password
    * Fixed registry setting for personal configuration directory and personal configuration file (#2006515)
    * Include stdint.h for compiling with GCC >= 4.4
    * Setup/Makefile.am: do not fail linking when using --as-needed linker flag
    * IsdServer: fixed running multiple program
    * ICA/Win32/VncClient: hold m_sendUpdateLock while processing rfbItalcServiceRequest (fixes occasional flicker/connection losses)
    * IMA/Client: do not paint screen if window is too small



    The download is available at

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/italc/files/italc/1.0.10


    More information are available at the project homepage

    http://italc.sourceforge.net

    and the Wiki

    http://italc.sourceforge.net/wiki

    2010-07-29 16:41:12 PDT by tobydox

  • iTALC 1.0.9 released

    iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool which lets you view and control computers in your labs and interact with students in a modern way. It supports Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

    iTALC 1.0.9 fixes bugs found in 1.0.8. There're also minor improvements regarding the master user-interface.


    Detailed Changes:

    Core:
    - fixed endless loop when initializing keys
    - add date and time to logfiles
    - updated miniLZO-library to version 2.03
    - fixed problems at exit of master application on win32-platform
    (huge logfiles)
    - increased timeouts in socket-read-function in order to minimize lost
    connections
    - various fixes for Qt 4.4-compatibility - fixes demo-mode crashs in RC3/RC4
    - fixed possibility to escape locked mode
    - in case of failed connections, sleep longer for not immediately hitting
    WinXP SP2 connection limit
    - made Linux-version compile with libc 2.8 (part of Ubuntu 8.10)
    - win32: when using "run commands"-feature, run processes with permissions of
    logged on user
    - Linux: integrated latest x11vnc-version which fixes ICA-crashes when
    disconnecting during internal speed-estimations
    - built win32-binaries with GCC 4.3.1 and latest Qt 4.4 snapshots

    UI:
    - added option for making toolbar buttons only display icon
    - fixed tooltip flicker issue
    - made visibility of individual sidebar-buttons configurable via context-menu
    - when selecting multiple clients (<ctrl>+left click) perform context-menu
    action on all selected clients
    - added support for controlling master-application via system-tray-icon


    The download is available at

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132465


    More information are available at the project-homepage

    http://italc.sourceforge.net

    and the Wiki

    http://italc.sourceforge.net/wiki

    2008-07-23 05:19:52 PDT by tobydox

  • iTALC 1.0.8 released

    iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool which lets you view and control computers in your labs and interact with students in a modern way. It supports Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!


    iTALC 1.0.8 fixes various bugs found in 1.0.7 and has an improved user-interface. Please note that you've to update both client- and master-computers in order to make the demo-mode work properly!


    Detailed changes:

    - disabled MMX-optimized image-scaler on x86_64 as it's currently buggy
    - added zoom-feature: holding mouse-button on a client-window makes it zoom
    - under win32: disable screen-saver while demo is running or screen is locked
    - display hostname in client-windows when "show user" is not checked
    - removed support-tab and added a button in toolbar instead
    - improved sidebar
    - visibility of individual toolbar-buttons can be configured via the toolbar-contextmenu
    - fixed several issues with scaling in remote-control-window
    - always try to run demo-server on default-port 5858 to allow easier and more secure firewall-configuration
    - drag'n drop support in classroom manager
    - fixed confirmation-dialog when closing setup-window via Alt+F4/close-button
    - added timeout-recognition in isdConnection::readFromServer()-function which makes iTALC-master not hang when quitting if a connection is somehow blocked
    - updated italc.spec.in
    - the name-field of a client is now optional - if you do not specify it, the hostname/IP is used for displaying the client's name
    - network-interface for demo-modes doesn't need to be configured anymore - it's auto-detected by clients
    - improved stability of demo-server




    The download is available at

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132465


    More information is available at the project-homepage

    http://italc.sourceforge.net

    and the Wiki

    http://italc.sourceforge.net/wiki


    2008-04-21 03:44:19 PDT by tobydox

  • iTALC 1.0.7 released

    iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool which lets you view and control computers in your labs and interact with students in a modern way. It supports Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!


    iTALC 1.0.7 dramatically improves CPU-usage by using a new heavily optimized image-scaling-algorithm for several tasks. With version 1.0.7 the master-computer should keep responsive even when monitoring a lot of clients (especially applies to Linux). Furthermore the user-interface has been improved to make iTALC even more usable.


    Detailed changes:

    - improved overall usability by adding new icons and reworking look of overview-mode
    - added new image-scaling algorithm with (optional) MMX-optimizations in order to use less CPU-time on master-computer when monitoring a lot of clients with short update-intervals
    - thanks to fast image-scaler, remote-control and demo-mode now scale screen in real-time instead of having the user to scroll
    - removed user-list and added ability to display user-name instead of IP-address in classroom-manager
    - removed remote-IP-property as not used anymore
    - fixed logon-feature from classroom-action-menu
    - in case user accidently changed role but no keys exist for this role try teacher-role as fallback in order to make iTALC still usable in such cases (Closes #1866440)
    - updated spec-file for building RPMs
    - added Polish localization-files
    - made power-down, reboot and logoff work under Linux if no user is logged in
    - fixed various crashes



    The download is available at

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132465


    More information is available at the project-homepage

    http://italc.sourceforge.net

    and the Wiki

    http://italc.sourceforge.net/wiki


    2008-03-09 14:19:45 PDT by tobydox

  • iTALC 1.0.6 released

    iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool which lets you view and control computers in your labs and interact with students in a modern way. It supports Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!


    In cooperation with the Edubuntu-team several serious bugs were discovered and fixed. Especially crashes that existed for ages are now gone, 64-bit-platform compatibility has been significantly improved and iTALC now works properly in Linux-based Thin Client environments. Altogether version 1.0.6 for sure is the most stable iTALC we ever had.


    Detailed changes:

    - make Backtab (i.e. Shift+Tab) work properly in remote-control (closes #1889307)
    - install libitalc_core.so to /usr/lib/italc/ instead of /usr/lib/
    - use new version of miniLZO which fixes various random crashes on 64-bit-platforms and brings general speed-improvements
    - use Qt-Utf8-functions whereever it's possible
    - fixed host-based authentication (for demo-mode-purposes) - usage of -ivsport-parameter shouldn't introduce problems with demo-mode anymore
    - fixed *many* various crashes of client and master
    - fixed endianess-problems of demo-mode
    - fixed broken Tight-encoding-implementation
    - fixed demo-mode-crash (closes #1849671)
    - properly handle X-cursor-encoding
    - updated broken Spanish localization
    - integrated latest x11vnc-release (0.9.4)
    - added -isdport-parameter to master (to be used in LTSP-environments)
    - fixed encoding-problems of user-names in user-list
    - Linux: fixed shutdown, reboot and logoff methods for KDE and GNOME
    - fixed broken authentication-type rfbNoAuth in IVS-client-implementation
    - fixed missing initialization of encoding-handler for x11vnc - fixes crash of ICA on 64-bit-platforms
    - fixed possible buffer-overflows
    - made -fPIC-flag default to make everything compile well on x86_64
    - fixed "-screen"-parameter of master application for virtual desktops



    The download is available at

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132465


    More information is available at the project-homepage

    http://italc.sourceforge.net

    and the Wiki

    http://italc.sourceforge.net/wiki

    2008-02-10 15:28:08 PST by tobydox