It is strange that it uses a pkg... but I guess it's better than coming in a Stuffit file.
I'm curious to try it out. The current release is great as-is, but a few of the things do sound like they'd be nice. Particularly if MRDC and Exposé cooperated better? (i.e. full screen apps and Exposé's show all windows mode).
EDIT: Update, it did indeed do this. Nicely, I might add.
I don't know if it's wise to or not, but if anyone is installing this while Office 04 is installed and they want to overwrite their copy of MRDC, which seems harmless, they should point the installer to this folder:
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Additional Tools/Remote Desktop Connection
When asked to choose where to install, as this installation just drops in the single app bundle (and no folder).
It's very nice that it can render out a screen resolution to a window (so, e.g., if you go from full screen to windowed, you get a window with a reduced-size version of the fullscreen resolution). It does a nice job of this.
It has some other really nice little features:
- It lets you know only give the host computer access to the client's home directory and not the whole drive (which I don't think is in the Windows version yet). Although, oddly, it still seems to let a non-admin user give the client at least read access to the whole HD without needing to escalate privileges. If they fix this and respect local permissions, this would be a great security feature.
- Much better keymapping
- Adds the auto-reconnect feature that Windows has
- Adds the ability to send the RDC by default to full-screen on a display of your choice, if you have more than one display.
All in all, outstanding. I thought RDC 1.x was far better than CoRD; this is a substantial leap in turn over RDC 1.x!
P.S. I think the trend of just replacing actual releases of software with never-ending public betas is becoming tiresome (cough, GMail, cough)
