Re: The FreeRDP fork

Hi Gregory,

Hello,
>
> I do not use rdesktop or freerdp clients, but closely follow
> development change log of both projects.
>
> freerdp project was actually announced in rdesktop-devel list:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.rdesktop.devel/3226
>
> and the reason cleanly states: "rdesktop not being fixed up quick enough"
>

I see bugs that have been fixed for a long time in FreeRDP still being
there...

As for feature requests, I think it's much worse. May I mention that I have
implemented both TLS and NLA support in FreeRDP? Someone submitted a patch
for NLA support in rdesktop a couple of months ago, requiring to build
against libsamba. I can perfectly see why it wasn't included in the rdesktop
(the dependency is way too big), but the end result is still the same: after
all those years, people can't use rdesktop with an RDP server that enforces
NLA usage.

>
> I saw patches laying in rdesktop bugzilla for a while and they were
> not integrated into rdesktop. On the other hand, if there is a new
> implementation of existing feature in rdesktop, how it might be tested
> and integrated into rdesktop by community? For example freerdp project
> provides new way of keyboard handling.
>

Keyboard handling was the reason why I started working on my own set of
patches for rdesktop. I don't want to re-open the two year old discussion on
the matter, but since FreeRDP was started, we often got new users simply
because they could use their keyboard properly, not to mention the multiple
thanks from desperate users that need to use RDP from Linux daily.

>
> >From observer point of view, I see that rdesktop features are being
> decided by only Cendio and not the community. Sorry, may be I am
> wrong, but that is an impression I've got and glad that freerdp
> project exists and is rapidly growing.
>

I was given the same impression back when I first tried contributing to
rdesktop, and I don't think I am alone thinking that. If you think this
impression is totally wrong, maybe you should work on projecting a different
image to the community, because that's what you project.

>
> Gregory Smirnov,
> cross-platform RDP Clients developer
>
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