Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of Enhancements

Timestamp:

01/11/17 16:17:20 (5 years ago)

Author:

Antoine Martin

Comment:

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Enhancements

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 This fork adds the following enhancements over the [http://partiwm.googlecode.com/ original version]:
-* Better platform support: [http://xpra.org/dists/osx/x86/ Mac OS X], [http://xpra.org/dists/windows/ Microsoft Windows], [http://xpra.org/dists/Android/Xpra.apk Android APK] (beta), [http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog/?s=xpra Solaris], [http://www.freshports.org/x11/xpra FreeBSD], OpenBSD and many more
+* Better platform support: [http://xpra.org/dists/osx/x86/ Mac OS X] (DMG and PKG installers), [http://xpra.org/dists/windows/ Microsoft Windows] (EXE and MSI installers), [http://xpra.org/dists/Android/Xpra.apk Android APK] (beta), [http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog/?s=xpra Solaris], [http://www.freshports.org/x11/xpra FreeBSD], OpenBSD and many more
 * Up to date binary packages and repositories: [https://winswitch.org/downloads/debian-repository.html DEB (Debian/Ubuntu)] / [https://winswitch.org/downloads/rpm-repository.html RPM (Fedora/CentOS)], and [http://xpra.org/dists/ many more]
-* Many new [/wiki/Encodings picture encodings]: [http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html x264], [http://www.webmproject.org/tools/vp8-sdk/group__vp8__encoder.html VP8], [https://code.google.com/p/webp/ webp], JPEG, rgb24, rgb32 and PNG image compression ''(all but rgb are optional, but highly recommended)''
-* [/wiki/Sound Sound forwarding]
-* Support for [/wiki/ProxyServer proxy mode] (many sessions on a single port)
+* [/wiki/Clients/HTML5 HTML5] client
+* Many new types of network transport protocols (TCP, [/wiki/Encryption/SSL SSL], VSOCK #983, websockets #1271) and [/wiki/Encryption encryption].
+* Many new [/wiki/Encodings picture encodings]: [http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html x264], [http://www.webmproject.org/tools/vp8-sdk/group__vp8__encoder.html VP8], [https://code.google.com/p/webp/ webp], JPEG, rgb24, rgb32 and PNG image compression - automatically selected and tuned
+* [/wiki/Sound Sound forwarding], [/wiki/Printing printer forwarding], [/wiki/FileTransfers file transfers], [/wiki/Webcam forwarding]
+* VNC-like desktop mode #1247
+* Support for [/wiki/ProxyServer proxy mode] and [/wiki/Service system service] (many sessions on a single port)
 * Support for sharing a TCP port with a web server
-* Concurrent multi-client connections ''(experimental)''
+* Concurrent multi-client connections (#41)
 * GUI launcher
-* Supports a global configuration file ({{{/etc/xpra/xpra.conf}}}) and per-user overrides ({{{~/.xpra/xpra.conf}}})
-* Zero-copy and much lower CPU overhead in network code, faster packet encoder
-* System tray menu for easy disconnection, access to options and statistics
+* System tray menu for easy disconnection, access to runtime options and statistics
 * Fast [/wiki/ClientRendering/OpenGL OpenGL client rendering]
-* Memory-mapped data transfers for local connections - extremelly fast!
+* Fast zero-copy and much lower CPU overhead in network code, much faster packet encoder
+* Memory-mapped data transfers for local connections - extremely fast!
 * Hardware accelerated H264 encoding ([/wiki/Encodings/nvenc NVENC])
 * Hardware accelerated [/wiki/CSC colourspace conversion]
 * Support for window transparency
 * Better client [/wiki/Keyboard keyboard] layout support
+* advanced [/wiki/Clipboard] options
 * Handles screen update storms and fast screen refresh rates
 * Support for [/wiki/Authentication authentication modules] for securing plain TCP connections
-* [/wiki/Encryption Encrypted connections]
-* Forwarding of system bell and custom application cursors
-* Forwarding of application notifications ''(requires its own dbus daemon)''
-* Support for [/wiki/Xdummy Xdummy] and the RandR extension which fixes a number of otherwise unfixable display bugs (ie: #1, #2)
-* Ability to disable pulseaudio and clipboard synchronization, change DPI setting (#697, #163), etc
-* Support for [/wiki/ShadowServer shadowing existing displays]
-* Clean client disconnection
-* Lots of small bug fixes, security fixes and portability fixes (IPv6, endianness, platforms, etc)
+* Forwarding of system bell, custom application cursors, and application notifications
+* Improved screen and window geometry handling (see [/wiki/Xdummy Xdummy])
+* [/wiki/ShadowServer Shadowing existing displays]
+* Many bug fixes, security and portability fixes (IPv6, endianness, platforms, etc)