Re: [rdesktop-devel] Native UI for the Mac

[Roine G. <ro...@us...>]

On Thursday, Dec 23, 2004, at 15:50 Europe/Stockholm, Andy Satori wrote:

> Ok,
>
> I find that Microsoft's RDC client for the Mac is slow, and suffers 
> from a number of issues (the primary one being the inability to 
> support multiple connections concurrently).  I've used rdesktop off 
> and on over the past couple of years, both on Linux / X11 and on Mac / 
> X11.  The problem is that the the X11 server is additional overhead on 
> the Mac and the clipboard / pasteboard behaviour is terrible.
>
> With that in mind, I'd like to put a Mac native UI on the rdesktop 
> code. Having taken a cursory look, it appears that there has already 
> been an effort to build a BeOS native UI, and I thought I'd ask before 
> I jumped in.
>
> Gotchas?  Suggestions?  Warnings?
>

I had that idea for a long time, but never found the killer need to 
motivate myself.
My gripe was mostly that Microsoft apps on Mac behave like on Windows; 
they terminate after you close the window. (Same with WMP for Mac). 
That almost annoyed me enough to port rdesktop :)

My idea was to reuse parts of Chicken of the VNC 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/> which has already solved most 
of the Mac OS X screen handling stuff.

   /Roine