new icon and ui cleanup

[Corey Burger]

TSclient needs a new icon. The blue "windows" icon is ok, but doesn't really
demonstrate what it does.
In addition, the top blue bar has wierd artifacts of blue and green around it. I
favour removing the top blue bar entirely, but that may not fly. I say remove it
as it looks more like a windows app than a gnome one. However, one user I polled
said that it looked "professional and out of place"

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

I agree that this blue bar is not useful and might be removed. The current icon (computer+shiny globe) seems fine for me.

[Jonh Wendell (wendell)]

Hi.

Are you talking about current icon (attached)?
Or about an old one?

[Rimas Kudelis (rq)]

I suggest beautifying even more of TSclient.

In Dapper times, a guy named Lauri Taumila has created a Human theme for TSclient, which incorporates icons used in all TSclient tabs, and even the top strip. I suggest Ubuntu to replace the files in TSclient with his creation, or other files from Human theme (where appropriate, e.g. sound.png is different from what I see in the Settings menu in Gutsy).

The theme description and a download link is here: http://www.taimila.com/?q=node/3. I'm also attaching the theme to this bug.

[Rimas Kudelis (rq)]

Oops, I misspelled his name. He's actually named Lauri Taimila.

[Rimas Kudelis (rq)]

Oh, and talking about an icon, the Human theme has both a beautiful orange globe and a nice computer with a brown desktop. If only someone could merge them nicely into one icon similarly to the current icon of tsclient, that icon would rock IMHO.

[Oliver Gerlich (ogerlich)]

My 2 cents:

I also agree that the current icon looks a bit "old" (mainly the color of computer case and screen look quite old somehow). But switching to an orange icon doesn't seem like a good solution to me: if all apps do that, the taskbar is full of orange icons - that would make it quite difficult to distinguish the different apps :-) . Also IMHO it's not necessary that the screen on the icon looks like the Ubuntu desktop - after all, tsclient is meant for accessing _other_ systems as well.

So I think it would be nice to polish the current tsclient icon... IMHO the globe looks quite nice; but maybe the computer could be replaced by something from the Tango icon set or by a blue-colored version of the computer from the Human theme?

[Dave L (wizkey1)]

It would be nice if the tsclient applet icon would follow the icon theme conventions. Right now, GNOME_TSClientApplet.server has the icon hardcoded to /usr/share/pixmaps/tsclient/tsclient.png. The problem with that, of course, is that regardless of what icon theme you use, it will always use that icon.

Even if GNOME_TSClientApplet.server is edited to this:

<oaf_attribute name="panel:icon" type="string" value="tsclient.png"/>

instead of

<oaf_attribute name="panel:icon" type="string" value="/usr/share/pixmaps/tsclient/tsclient.png"/>

it still does not follow the theme convention.

[Alexi Helligar (alexih)]

On Hardy after launching the RDP session using tsclient the "Window Menu Button" displays a generic program icon on the title bar of the rdesktop session. This does not integrate well with the rest of the desktop. I would like to see the actual tsclient icon displayed during the rdesktop session. Is it possible to pass the "Window Menu Bar" parameters to rdesktop? Thanks.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. tsclient has been removed from the Ubuntu 11.10 archives. The software has not had a new release in years and was no longer being maintained. Unfortunately that means this bug won't be fixed.

[Alexi Helligar (alexih)]

Yes, I have moved on to Remmina.

Best regards,

Alexi
On Aug 14, 2011 2:49 AM, "Jeremy Bicha" <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this bug. tsclient has been removed from the
> Ubuntu 11.10 archives. The software has not had a new release in years
> and was no longer being maintained. Unfortunately that means this bug
> won't be fixed.
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> ** Changed in: tsclient (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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> ** Changed in: tsclient (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Jonh Wendell (wendell) => (unassigned)
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