Bug 73377

Summary:	RDP high color support
Product:	[Applications] krdc	Reporter:	James <Spy_Hunter>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Arend van Beelen jr. <arendjr>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description James 2004-01-24 03:38:07 UTC

Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.2.0 RC1, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.6.0-test11

Windows XP and above support more than 256 color RDP connections (I'm not sure if it's 16, 24, or 32 bit color).  Supporting this would make connections to Windows machines much nicer-looking.

Comment 1 rldleblanc 2004-10-31 04:45:50 UTC

I am not sure how krdc interacts with rdesktop, but I downloaded it from CVS and from the command line, I am able to run a RDP connection in 16 bits to a Windows XP machine. It would be nice to be able to select color depth, sound, drive, and printer options from KRDC. It seems (although I am not sure of the implemtation of KRDC) that the options could easily be passed to rdesktop.

Comment 2 Derek Buranen 2004-12-01 20:49:37 UTC

The rdesktop command is as follows:
rdesktop -a <color depth, 15, 16, 24, 32> 

As for the sound option:
rdesktop -r sound

I'm not sure if printers is even supported by rdesktop, so since krdc is just a frontend for rdesktop, maybe that's a bug report for rdesktop.

Comment 3 Benjamin Schallar 2004-12-13 22:31:07 UTC

Thanks for the rdesktop hint!

Although it would be great to incorporate the complete rdesktop functionality into krdc...

*meanwhile-happily-using-rdesktop*

Comment 4 Tomasz Chmielewski 2005-02-25 11:28:30 UTC

check tsclient.

It's a Gnome full blown RDP client, similar to Windows ones.

Comment 5 Derek Buranen 2005-02-25 17:53:43 UTC

tsclient... for one, it's gnome...  for two, it's still not as functional as rdesktop.  The greatest thing about rdesktop is "ctrl + alt + enter" to get full screen.  You can't do this in tsclient.  Also, tsclient doesn't let you save profiles as desktop icons.  It's easier to manually make .desktop files that launch "rdesktop -a 24 -r sound -f <host>"  This way, you get the power of using "ctrl + alt + enter"

As an addendum to this bug... it'd be nice to have krdc use ctrl+alt+enter to fullscreen :)  (for rdp and for vnc protocol)

Comment 6 Brad Hards 2005-12-03 08:56:28 UTC

You can already select the colour depth.

Comment 7 rldleblanc 2005-12-03 17:49:34 UTC

The last comment made to this bug was almost a year ago. I believe they have added the high color support since and not told anyone. It was not that it was there and we could not find it.

Comment 8 Brad Hards 2005-12-04 04:39:49 UTC

Indeed, it was added by Daniel Molkentin in Jan 2005. Adding the other features will have to be held for KDE4, because of the string freeze for KDE 3.5

Comment 9 Brad Hards 2005-12-14 11:16:52 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103934 ***