Bug 262323

Summary:	knx NX Client should be removed due to unmaintenence
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Alexey Eremenko <al4321>
Component:	KDE	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 2plus
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Description Alexey Eremenko 2007-04-08 01:39:49 UTC

The old NX Client, knx, is unmaintained, and therefore should be removed from the distro. 

Reason:
knx targets NX protocol version 1, while the current implementation of both clients & servers use version 2. Those versions are only partially compatible, which causes a lot of problems interconnecting those 2 versions.

Possible ways to go:
1) QtNX - a new OSS NX client emerged, but this one is untested, so we must test it carefully before I can recommend it for inclusion.
2) Proprietary Nomachine's NX Client - this one is stable and feature-full - the recommended one. I have opened a bug report to include that one:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262321

-Alexey "Technologov"

Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2007-04-28 16:04:54 UTC

We already have a QtNX package, is it working fine?

Comment 2 Dirk Mueller 2007-05-02 08:39:13 UTC

yes, and even if not, its easier to fix there.

Comment 3 Alexey Eremenko 2007-05-06 10:39:32 UTC

Well, I have tested QtNX - results: very poor.

While the GUI starts it refuses to connect, so basically QtNX is another non-working app.

Until there is an open-source NX client that _works_, we should keep proprietary NX Client on the non-OSS CD.

-Alexey "Technologov"

Comment 4 Dirk Mueller 2007-05-07 11:42:29 UTC

which setup do you use? lets just fix qtnx then :)