I found out by chance today that vinagre also supports RDP protocol connections. This is enabled by default, I didn't request it via a useflag or expected it at all. When I selected RDP, the program complained that it wasn't able to start the rdesktop child process. Usually I have been using grdesktop for ages, unfortunately that stopped to remember passwords a while ago and looks rather dated. Since I just reinstalled my system, I had neither grdesktop nor rdesktop itself installed. Thats how I found out what vinagre could do but can't do to missing deps. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. On a fresh system, install vinagre 2. Start vinagre, select RDP protocol 3. Enter a netbios name and try to connect Actual Results: Vinagre does not find rdesktop and can not connect to the remote machine. Expected Results: Connect to the remote machine and show me the login dialog. The description should also hint that vinagre is capable of rdp.
Created attachment 324326 [details, diff] patch to add useflag, RDEPEND and make conf flag conditional
This looks like an oversight during dev cycle bumps.
+ 25 Oct 2012; Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org> vinagre-3.4.2.ebuild, + metadata.xml: + Add missing rdesktop support and make it optional, bug 435552. I did not make it enabled by default because I don't think most gentoo users want remote access to windows desktop by default. Thanks for reporting.
I am totally fine with that, thanks for fixing!
