Re: RDESKTOP, the product, patch, and a bit of thanks.

[Peter Bystrom <peter.bystrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Steven, I trust you are not implying that Peter wrote the patches single
> handedly?  Various others contributed patches that have since been
> included in the unified patches.  I myself contributed the cursor support
> and a text handling fix which were included.
>

as you  word it, I have merely merged them, and "glued" them together, some of
the glue has been what I think are improvements, people might have different
ideas about that I believe ;). there is a CHANGES file included in the unified
patch, check it out, if you feel something is wrong, tell me.


>
> I've just noticed that the unified patch doesn't appear to include any
> proper fixes for the keyboard support.  Several different keyboard patches
> have been posted to this list with different aims in mind:  I myself
> posted a solution months ago that would give support for the entire
> keyboard from an intel architecture box.  Not only does this fix various
> problems with caps lock and num lock but it all makes every single key on
> the PC keyboard, including the windows and menu keys, work correctly (only
> tested on a NT 4 server).
>

I believe the patch you are talking about is already included if I'm wrong, tell
me. ;) by the way, is there anyway that the program could check the real status
of the caps/num keys so they get synced?


>
> Peter, was this a deliberate ommission, or an oversight?  If the former,
> let me know why so I can rework the patch.  I think this is a very
> important fix and really ought to be included.  If the latter you'll find
> the patch on http://ziggy.fitz.cam.ac.uk/
>
> I'm afraid to say I've not had much time to play around with rdesktop
> lately and haven't yet tried any of Peter's unified patches, as I've been
> distracted trying to port it to java, but I will endeavour to give
> it a go in the near future.
>
> Regards,
> Ben.
>
> /   Ben McKeegan, I.T. Manager                                         \
> \   Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK.                  /