Quick launch version for the client?

RetGal / Dayon

Dayon! - A cross-platform remote desktop assistance solution for your family and friends

https://retgal.github.io/Dayon/

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Quick launch version for the client? #18

Closed therealrobster closed 4 years ago

therealrobster commented 5 years ago

Hi I'd love it if we could separate the Assistant and the Assisted. Ideally the assisted would have a single, executable (no install required) that they simply run and let us know the number we need to enter to connect.

This will help understand:

non tech savvy user on phone
we ask them to head to our website and click on the "download support software link"
they download and run the .exe (or .dmg if a mac)
they tell us the connection number, we enter it our end and we connect

This way they don't have to:

install software
choose a type (assistant and assisted will confuse a basic user)

This way we can:

quickly and easily guide the user to the download
have them up and running without having to install software onto their machine

RetGal commented 5 years ago

Hi. I think this could be achieved with the means of project jigsaw. Like this no installed JRE would be required. I started with the modularisation of Dayon! at the beginning of this year - but I didn't push it any further. Maybe I'll start a separate branch for this feature.

therealrobster commented 5 years ago

Modularisation would be great. Teamviewer is the big player in the field and they're getting a bit power mad, shutting down old versions to force people onto new, subscription based models. Something open source that could grow to take on their dominance would be excellent

RetGal commented 4 years ago

Hi, I finally found the time to address this issue. The upcoming release (v1.9.0) will feature "quick launch" versions of the assistant and the assisted which can be downloaded separately and which will run without installation. This release will also allow to pass the connection settings for the assisted by command line parameters.

therealrobster commented 4 years ago

Excellent! I look forward to it. Is there an announcement mailing list for when a new release is out?

RetGal commented 4 years ago

Nope, there is no mailing list, as the project is still a one man show ;) But I'm pretty optimistic that I'll release the new version within the next days - definitely before Christmass!

RetGal commented 4 years ago

The new Dayon! release v1.9.0 aka Promiscuous Potato is available for download!