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Contents 1 Rootless / standalone windows 2 Summary 3 Owners 4 Current Status 5 Description 6 Testing 7 Links

Rootless / standalone windows

Summary

Add the ability to run virtualized-os applications as normal applications in seperate windows.

Owners

• Marc-Andre Lureau
• Arnon

Current Status

• Targeted Release: none
• 0% complete

Description

A rootless desktop allows to create a seamless desktop environment between the client OS and the guest OS. This kind of functionality is available in VMWare Unity view. Applications should behave as if they were not in a seperate OS,

- applications are managed and are integrated in the client window-manager/shell
- show separate client windows for each applications
- copy&paste, dragging
- status bar
- application menu
- recents documents
- volume control
- to be continued...

Testing

Links

- we should probably patch/reuse seamlessrdp: http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop/seamlessrdp/trunk/

- launchy source code can help to figure out how to list start menu item

- see also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644977(v=vs.85).aspx