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Vinagre and other news

June 17th, 2008 | Linux, gnome, ubuntu

Hi, folks.

Some news in Vinagre since 0.5 version (GNOME 2.22):

  • Basic support for scaling, based on OpenGL
  • Side panel shows both bookmarked connections and avahi-discovered machines
  • New command-line option to debug the connection: –gtk-vnc-debug
  • View-only mode
  • Send CTRL-ALT-DEL option
  • Unique instance behaviour with a command-line option (–new-window) to open another window
  • Don’t show tabs if there is only one connection active
  • Support for host::port command-line syntax
  • Connect dialog now remembers previous host/port address
  • New toolbar in fullscreen mode. It appears when you move the mouse to the top of the window
  • Panel applet, with quick access to bookmarks and avahi-discovered machines
  • Better compatibility with more VNC servers

Latest Vinagre is 2.23.4 and can be found at GNOME FTP servers.

In other news, I’m ready to GUADEC (or almost ready, still have to draw my presentation).
I’m looking forward to meet all GNOME crowd.

Next Friday I’m going to São Paulo, just for the weekend, enjoy some cold days, thanks to GOL, an Brazilian airline which is offering tickets for about US$ 5.00 (JFYI, Maceió, where I live-São Paulo is distance of 2500Km)!!! Unbelievable!

15 comments ↓

#1 Johan on 06.17.08 at 14:57

That sounds really cool. Do you have any plans for NX support? I wish I could drop my old NX client and use something better integrated with gnome.

Thanks!

#2 baze on 06.17.08 at 15:16

atm scaling is only supported for scaling up, not down, right?

#3 Romain on 06.17.08 at 16:45

Hi, nice new features! the menu bar on the fullscreen mode is really helpful.

few things that are annoying:

1. The keys aren’t all mapped to the client screen, if I need the “F9″ on the remote desktop, it can’t user it because the F9 key is the bookmark key. We should be able to bind all the keys to the remote desktop.

2. Vinage isn’t as fast as xtightvncviewer, I think xtightvnxviewer uses a better color compression.

Keep up the good work!

#4 Stormking on 06.17.08 at 17:52

Downscaling would be *really* helpful to keep an eye on certain things.

#5 Fabian on 06.18.08 at 4:38

> Don’t show tabs if there is only one connection active

Please make this optional. I am used to see tabs even if I have only one open in gedit and epiphany.

#6 Jonh Wendell on 06.18.08 at 8:19

@Johan: There is the plan to support NX, but RDP is priority to me.

@baze: Yes, you’re right.

@Romain: This is fixed in this version too.

@Fabian: This is optional. There’s a gconf key where you can change this behavior. Maybe I’ll add a preferences window to control such features.

#7 danbee on 06.23.08 at 14:44

Is there any chance of getting SSH tunnelling support for VNC? Like the -via switch on ‘vncviewer’?

#8 jakatak on 06.26.08 at 7:02

Hi,

Nice work, do you plan to use plug-in encryption ?
Like :
http://msrc4plugin.home.comcast.net/~msrc4plugin/index.html ?

Thanks in advance,

Jakatak

#9 Daniel Milisic on 06.26.08 at 17:07

Hi!

I’m looking forward to working on this new release, many thanks John. The last version of Vinagre fit in really well with my Virtual Appliance’s build of Xfce-4.4 and GNOME-2.22. Regarding VNC server compatibility; does this also include Apple VNC servers? I remember way back I had to horribly hack GTK-VNC to force protocol 3.3 sessions. Apple’s VNC reports version 3.889 but it’s only 3.3 compatible so GTK-VNC didn’t deal with that too gracefully (and it’s not GTK-VNC’s fault for following the VNC spec properly, is it?)

Once again, thanks; Vinagre and GTK-VNC look and run great over NX protocol in a seamless window.

Cheers,
D.

#10 Alban on 07.21.08 at 11:54

Do vino and vinagre have a web site? And an IRC channel?

#11 André Barmasse on 08.19.08 at 11:42

Hi Jonh

I use your excellent and esay to use vinagre every day to support a lot of windows clients in our office network. As I have now at least one hundred bookmarks of machines it would be very nice if you could add an option to sort the whole bookmark list alphabetically!

Keep up the good work! Greetings from Switzerland

André

André

#12 Jonh Wendell on 08.21.08 at 17:53

@Alban, you can reach me on #gnome-hackers at gimpnet network.

@André, this wish is our bugzilla. I’ll do that for next version, I hope :)

#13 Andreas Henden on 10.06.08 at 7:49

It is good to hear that you have plans to support RDP, the only thing that we miss then is ICA support, but that would probably be a bit hard since it is closed source :(

Keep up the good work!

#14 Bob Wallum on 10.11.08 at 7:25

Can I use vinagre over the Internet to support a user 500 miles away? I have managed to get it working over a LAN and it is great! Just need to do the same thing over a WAN.

#15 Brendan Lally on 12.21.08 at 3:30

I’m running v2.24.1 under Ubuntu 2.6.27-9 connecting to a Windows XP Pc running Opera.
Every time I close tabbed window within the browser (^W) it kills Vinagre.

how do I remap Vinagre keys

Thanks

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