krdc: Falling in Love All Over Again

“Today’s KDE4 application love session is all about remote
access via VNC and RDP via the somewhat cryptically named krdc
(which stands for ‘KDE Remote Desktop Client,’ in case you’re
wondering).

“I remember back in the day when it only did VNC, and did it
fairly slowly at that. At least it had a GUI, and it did get faster
over time. A real watershed moment was when it gained RDP support:
the rdesktop project accepted a patch to make it easy to XEmbed the
rdesktop window in another window. This allowed krdc to provide
some user friendly window dressing to the otherwise bare rdesktop
window…”

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