x2go under KDE on F22

[Neal Becker]

Neal Becker wrote:

> Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> 
>> On 24/03/15 21:36, Luigi Toscano wrote:
>>> Roderick Johnstone ha scritto:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm interested to find out whether the remote desktop system x2go
>>>> (http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php), is going to work in F22 under KDE.
>>>>
>>>> x2go is documented to be incompatible with 'KDE 5'
>>>> (http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:de-compat) but I notice that there
>>>> are still seem to be (at least) parts of KDE 4 in F22.
>>>
>>> According the description, it seems incompatible with the desktop Plasma
>>> 5. The parts you mention are the kdelibs4-based applications available
>>> in F22, which don't have a Frameworks-based release.
>>>
>>> Ciao
>>>
>> 
>> Luigi
>> 
>> Thanks for your comment.
>> 
>> Thats a pity. Our research group are long time KDE on Fedora users and
>> its good if people can have the same desktop experience both on remote
>> (x2go) and local (desktop) logins.
>> 
>> I did notice that the development/22/x86_64/os/Packages tree has the
>> packages:
>> kde-workspace-common-4.11.16-7.fc22.noarch.rpm
>> kde-workspace-devel-4.11.16-7.fc22.x86_64.rpm
>> 
>> and had hoped that there might there be some legacy kde4 desktop support.
>> 
>> On closer examination now I see that the common package only contains a
>> few text files and there is no kde-workspace package as such.
>> 
>> Oh well, I guess there is always F21 to keep us going for a few more
>> months. From what I read on the x2go lists (IIRC) there will be a big
>> project to update the X11 server in x2go to something modern which will
>> support KDE 5 but there is no timescale for that as of now.
>> 
>> Roderick
> 
> Oh that's unfortunate - I really depend on x2go.  There are alternatives,
> but not nearly as nice.
> 

I looked at the compat chart here:
http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:de-compat

Is this talking about the client-side or server-side?  I want to run kde on 
my client (my laptop) - don't care that much about the remote server.

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