364739 – Enable KRDC to use FreeRDC instead of rdesktop.

Bug 364739 - Enable KRDC to use FreeRDC instead of rdesktop.

Summary: Enable KRDC to use FreeRDC instead of rdesktop.

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] KDE (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team

URL:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=...
Whiteboard:	tracking upstream
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Reported:	2011-04-25 02:03 UTC by Richard
Modified:	2012-09-20 16:03 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Attachments
all nessesary files from KDE trunk (krdc-4.9.1-freerdp.patch,666.12 KB, patch) 2012-09-20 15:57 UTC, Norbert Marx	Details \| Diff
krdc ebuild with freerdp (krdc-4.9.1-r99.ebuild,1011 bytes, text/plain) 2012-09-20 15:58 UTC, Norbert Marx	Details
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Description Richard 2011-04-25 02:03:03 UTC

There is a fork of rdesktop called FreeRDC that recently entered the tree through bug #322967. It is backward compatible with rdesktop and it appears to be undergoing faster development. It would be great if KRDC could use FreeRDC in place of rdesktop.

There appears to be an upstream bug with this request, but I thought I would file one with Gentoo to inform the talented people we have here about the possibility of doing this:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248896

Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2011-05-14 14:00:22 UTC

Sure, let's track the upstream bug...

Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2011-11-04 22:46:40 UTC

There's not really much productive going on on the upstream bug. I guess keeping this report here open forever makes no sense. 

Once someone upstream does the work we'll for sure support it.

Comment 3 Norbert Marx 2012-09-20 15:57:39 UTC

Created attachment 324400 [details, diff]
all nessesary files from KDE trunk

Comment 4 Norbert Marx 2012-09-20 15:58:31 UTC

Created attachment 324402 [details]
krdc ebuild with freerdp

Comment 5 Norbert Marx 2012-09-20 16:03:40 UTC

I found a update for the upstream: https://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/6978/

May be anyone is interested to test, please download the attachments and try it in a local overlay. The ebuild contains only one line more to add freerdp support, but no USE flag and dependency information yet. If you test, you know what you are doing...

For me on amd64 the plugin is working, not perfect but better than rdesktop. Connections to Windows 7 are faster and stable, Win Server 2008 R2 is usabel too too.