Working on NX again

Posted by George Wright Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:39:00 GMT

Today I start working for DeFuturo Ltd on creating a cross platform NX client (GPL, of course) in Qt for their Desktop on Demand service. I must say I’m really happy to be working again on C++/Qt as GTK was starting to get to my head a bit!

The ultimate goal of this project is to create a cross-platform client which can execute directly after downloading without the need to install it anywhere. However, at the moment I’m simply working on getting an open source client working for Linux, OS X and Windows.

Yesterday I committed a version of QtNX that I’ve been hacking for the past couple of days which has now had its backend code updated to use Seb James’ nxcl client library instead of my ageing nxclientlib. I have confirmed that this works with nxproxy 3.1.0 and nxssh 3.1.0 for connecting to a NX 1.5.0 server, and I assume it works with NX 2.x and 3.x servers as well, but I don’t have access to any for testing at the moment. I will be working over the coming weeks on getting this to work with OS X and cygwin on Windows, as well as hopefully doing some code cleanups at the same time.

All in all, I’m very pleased with this work and this should lead to some very nice and exciting changes in the NX client world!

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  1. rossi said about 1 hour later:

    Great news!!

  2. batonac said about 1 hour later:

    Oh man, this is good news. I wish you Godspeed!

  3. seele said about 7 hours later:

    If you’re looking for any ideas for extras, it would be great if you could come up with a usability testing package.

    see http://weblog.obso1337.org/2007/discuss-open-source-usability-testing-solutions/

  4. fdoving said about 23 hours later:

    Great news!

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