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1  This file documents some of all patches for rdesktop, floating around  This file documents some of all patches for rdesktop, floating around
2  the net, and how they are related to the current (CVS) version of  the net, and how they are related to the current (CVS) version of
3  rdesktop. Things left to do are marked with TDB (To Be Done).  rdesktop. Things left to do are marked with TBD (To Be Done).
4    
5    
6  URL:  URL:
# Line 79  test the speed gain is significative. Line 79  test the speed gain is significative.
79  Status:  Status:
80  1) is not relevant any more, since rdesktop only uses backing store if  1) is not relevant any more, since rdesktop only uses backing store if
81  the Xserver does not provide backing store.  the Xserver does not provide backing store.
82  Need to examine if 2) and 3) are still useful. TDB.  Need to examine if 2) and 3) are still useful. TBD.
83    
84    
85  URL:  URL:
# Line 94  Applied (in revision 1.29, 2002/07/14) Line 94  Applied (in revision 1.29, 2002/07/14)
94  URL:  URL:
95  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/frank_1linerfix.html  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/frank_1linerfix.html
96  Description:  Description:
97  TDB  ui_create_glyph was not called with ipattern.
98  Status:  Status:
99  Not yet examined.  Applied (in revision 1.29, 2002/07/14).
100    
101    
102  URL:  URL:
103  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/frank_fasttext.patch.txt  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/frank_fasttext.patch.txt
104  Description:  Description:
105  TDB  Some kind of performence improvements.
106  Status:  Status:
107  Not yet examined.  From what I can tell, this patch is no longer necessary.
108    
109    
110  URL:  URL:
111  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/hostname-patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/hostname-patch
112  Description:  Description:
113  TDB  (From http://mail.rdesktop.org/archive/2001/msg00163.html):
114    
115    rdesktop uses gethostname to figure out the hostname, but gethostname
116    under linux returns an error when the hostname is longer than the
117    buffer.  This hack gives gethostname a 64 char buffer and then strips
118    the first 16 chars or upto the first '.' and puts the result in
119    hostname[16].
120    
121  Status:  Status:
122  Not yet examined.  Applied in version 1.10 of rdesktop.c.
123    
124    
125  URL:  URL:
126  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/hove-19-7-2endian.diff  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/hove-19-7-2endian.diff
127  Description:  Description:
128  TDB  Includes a program for testing endianness.
129  Status:  Status:
130  Not yet examined.  rdesktop determines endianness at runtime. This patch is not needed
131    anymore.
132    
133    
134  URL:  URL:
135  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/mmihalik_19-7-3-keyfix-4.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/mmihalik_19-7-3-keyfix-4.patch
136  Description:  Description:
137  TDB  Some kind of new alternative keyboard mapping imlementation.
138  Status:  Status:
139  Not yet examined.  Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
140    
141    
142  URL:  URL:
143  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_fullscreen.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_fullscreen.patch
144  Description:  Description:
145  TDB  Fullscreen mode.
146  Status:  Status:
147  Not yet examined.  Applied.
148    
149    
150  URL:  URL:
151  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_percent.txt  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_percent.txt
152  Description:  Description:
153  TDB  Makes is possible to specify RDP geometry based a percent value of the
154    current desktop size.
155  Status:  Status:
156  Not yet examined.  Not applied. I don't think many people will need this.
157    
158    
159  URL:  URL:
160  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_rdp_tcp_port.diff  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_rdp_tcp_port.diff
161  Description:  Description:
162  TDB  Command line tcp port argument.
163  Status:  Status:
164  Not yet examined.  Applied.
165    
166    
167  URL:  URL:
168  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/patch19-7-2.xyPos.emptyPassword.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/patch19-7-2.xyPos.emptyPassword.patch
169  Description:  Description:
170  TDB  This patch adds:
171    1) Support for empty passwords
172    2) Support for asking for password interactively
173    3) Support for +<xoff>+<yoff> geometry.
174    
175  Status:  Status:
176  Not yet examined.  1) and 2) can be solved by the -P parameter; patch not needed.
177    Functionality for 3) is currently missing.
178    
179    
180  URL:  URL:
181  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-19-7-1-mmihalik-3.diff  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-19-7-1-mmihalik-3.diff
182  Description:  Description:
183  TDB  Defines DO_GLYPH() etc.
184  Status:  Status:
185  Not yet examined.  As far as I understand, this patch is applied.
186    
187    
188  URL:  URL:
189  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-mmihalik-1.diff  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-mmihalik-1.diff
190  Description:  Description:
191  TDB  Misc drawing changes.
192  Status:  Status:
193  Not yet examined.  As far as I understand, this patch is applied.
194    
195    
196  URL:  URL:
197  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-pl19-7-2-mmihalik-1.diff  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-pl19-7-2-mmihalik-1.diff
198  Description:  Description:
199  TDB  Some kind of new alternative keyboard mapping implementation.
200  Status:  Status:
201  Not yet examined.  Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
202    
203    
204  URL:  URL:
205  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-gmp.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-gmp.patch
206  Description:  Description:
207  TDB  Use GMP for RSA crypto.
208  Status:  Status:
209  Not yet examined.  Not needed since rdesktop now use OpenSSL for all of the crypto.
210    
211    
212  URL:  URL:
213  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-new_kb.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-new_kb.patch
214  Description:  Description:
215  TDB  Modifies one of the old keyboard mapping implementations in some way.
216  Status:  Status:
217  Not yet examined.  Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
218    
219    
220  URL:  URL:
221  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-openssl.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-openssl.patch
222  Description:  Description:
223  TDB  Support for linking rdesktop with OpenSSL.
224  Status:  Status:
225  Not yet examined.  Not needed anymore, rdesktop can optionally use system
226    OpenSSL.
227    
228    
229  URL:  URL:
230  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop.vncviewer_patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop.vncviewer_patch
231  Description:  Description:
232  TDB  Hack for making the old (broken) keyboard mapping implementation work
233    with the VNC Xserver.
234  Status:  Status:
235  Not yet examined.  Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
236    
237    
238  URL:  URL:
239  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop_keymap.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop_keymap.patch
240  Description:  Description:
241  TDB  Some kind of new alternative keyboard mapping implementation.
242  Status:  Status:
243  Not yet examined.  Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
244    
245    
246  URL:  URL:
247  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdp-srvr-19-6-6.diff  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdp-srvr-19-6-6.diff
248  Description:  Description:
249  TDB  Basic RDP server.
250  Status:  Status:
251  Not yet examined.  Not applied.
252    
253    
254  URL:  URL:
255  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/scroll-to-death-patch.txt  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/scroll-to-death-patch.txt
256  Description:  Description:
257  TDB  Fixes scroll-to-death problem in Excel and other applications.
258  Status:  Status:
259  Not yet examined.  Not needed; fixed in another way in recent versions of rdesktop.
260    
261    
262  URL:  URL:
263  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark-manpage-patch-19.4  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark-manpage-patch-19.4
264  Description:  Description:
265  TDB  Adds a manual page.
266  Status:  Status:
267  Not yet examined.  Not needed; rdesktop contains a manual page now.
268    
269    
270  URL:  URL:
271  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark-manpage-patch-19.4-1  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark-manpage-patch-19.4-1
272  Description:  Description:
273  TDB  Adds a manual page.
274  Status:  Status:
275  Not yet examined.  Not needed; rdesktop contains a manual page now.
276    
277    
278  URL:  URL:
279  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark_xinerama-patch2  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark_xinerama-patch2
280  Description:  Description:
281  TDB  Adds XINERAMA support to rdesktop.
282  Status:  Status:
283  Not yet examined.  Not applied yet. TBD.
284    
285    
286  URL:  URL:
287  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/svenni_dis_wmkeybnds.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/svenni_dis_wmkeybnds.patch
288  Description:  Description:
289  TDB  Commandline flag to disable keyboard grabbing.
290  Status:  Status:
291  Not yet examined.  Applied.
292    
293    
294  URL:  URL:
295  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/svenni_disable_bs_in_x-tiny-patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/svenni_disable_bs_in_x-tiny-patch
296  Description:  Description:
297  TDB  Disables backing store for TinyX.
298  Status:  Status:
299  Not yet examined.  As far as I understand, this patch is not need any longer.
300    
301    
302  URL:  URL:
303  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-2.license.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-2.license.patch
304  Description:  Description:
305  TDB  TBD
306  Status:  Status:
307  Not yet examined.  Not yet examined.
308    
# Line 294  Not yet examined. Line 310  Not yet examined.
310  URL:  URL:
311  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-2.secure.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-2.secure.patch
312  Description:  Description:
313  TDB  Fixes a problem during the connection to a French NT4 TSE (a French
314    NT4 TSE doesn't use encryptation).
315  Status:  Status:
316  Not yet examined.  Applied.
317    
318    
319  URL:  URL:
320  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-3_excel.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-3_excel.patch
321  Description:  Description:
322  TDB  Makes matrixes appear better, such as those found in Excel/toad etc.
323  Status:  Status:
324  Not yet examined.  Applied.
325    
326    
327  URL:  URL:
328  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_8bpp.patch  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_8bpp.patch
329  Description:  Description:
330  TDB  Support a 8bpp display (256 colours).
331  Status:  Status:
332  Not yet examined.  An enhanced version is included in rdesktop; this patch is not needed any more.
333    
334    
335  URL:  URL:
336  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vpypatch.txt  http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vpypatch.txt
337  Description:  Description:
338  TDB  Various changes for one of the old keyboard stuff.
339  Status:  Status:
340  Not yet examined.  Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
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