On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:15:52PM +0200, Timothy Sparg wrote: > Hi all > I'm interested in the possibilty of contributing a Java based client to > the SPICE project. > My long term goal would be to create a reusable viewer component - the > same component could then be used to create an applet based viewer or a > viewer embedded in a java application. > I'm currently just perusing the SPICE protocol, but i suspect that it > will take me a while to start getting my head around it. > What are your views and thoughts as the SPICE developers, would you be > interested in somebody working towards the goal of a java based client? > Where should I get started learning the basics of the SPICE project? > Regards > Tim Sparg
Sounds like something a lot of people could use. You have two source code bases to look at, spicec and spice-gtk, for existing clients, though I suspect the later is cleaner. spicec is pretty old, written in C++, spice-gtk is C and a year and a half old and the future client, for instance it is the only one with support for usb redirection right now. The protocol is somewhat documented - the existing documentation is unfortunately old and doesn't cover off screen surfaces. However it is still mostly correct, so I'd start reading it, see documents link below. Main urls: documents - http://spice-space.org/documentation.html but with the previous warning - some of it is old and false. source - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice the clients are: old client: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/ (spicec is a place holder, the old client is meant to be moved there eventually) new client: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/ building/setup help - http://spice-space.org/page/DeveloperStartPage > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
