KURD is the KDE Universal Remote Desktop
What is it?
It is a front end to remote desktop client applications, most of which either have no real direct GUI interface
or a very limited one.
Current Kurd only supports rdesktop and vncviewer.
Requirements?
While Kurd is developed using KDevelop 3.0 (Gideon) on a Gentoo 1.4 system running KDE 3.1, the interface is generic enough that any KDE 3.x version should work. No testing outside of my development system has been done at this point.
The recommended client program versions are:
rdesktop >= 1.2.0
tightvnc >= 1.2.8
The client program executables must be in your path.
Using!
Kurd usage is fairly straight forward. The most recent development versions include what's this information on all configuration options. To see the notes, just click the appropriate title bar button and select the option.
Credits!!
I was inspired to create Kurd based on a lack of a rdesktop front end under KDE. I wanted something similar to tsclient, which is a GTK+ based front end. After much searching for a KDE tool, I discovered KRdesktop by Mattias Douhan. KRdesktop was unfortunately not exactly what I was looking for. I used the appearance of KRdesktop to create the configuration dialog of Kurd, so I wish to give credit where it is due.
KRdesktop Copyright (c) 2002, Mattias Douhan
Future?
My goal with Kurd is for it to be universal. In the future, you will be able to save configurations and easily write plugin descriptions so Kurd can configure and use other remote desktop clients, with rdesktop and krdc being default built-in clients.
Thank you for trying Kurd,
David Monk <david@purplebear.net>