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Project Ideas

Migrate UI from Sciter to Tauri

Skills: Rust, Javascript

Description: RustDesk chose Sciter (stable version) and Flutter (nightly build) as its Desktop UI SDK. As Tauri turns to be stable, it is time to switch to a more elegant UI SDK. Current RustDesk UI is based on TIScript+html+css, TIScript is a modified version of Javascript, and we also have an unfinished sciter-js branch.

Outcome: Replace current Sciter sdk with Tauri for Windows/Mac/Linux

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Rating: Hard

Size: 350 hours

Mentor: Kingtous RustDesk Member, Heap Chen RustDesk Member

Whiteboard

Skills: Rust, Windows / Linux / Mac

Description: Whiteboard is additional collaboration tool while sharing desktop, which enables users write or draw freely on computer screen during presentations.

Outcome: Users on both side can draw on the screen of the controlled PC.

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Rating: Hard

Size: 350 hours

Mentor: Carrie Chow RustDesk author

WebRTC Support

Skills: Rust, WebRTC

Description: RustDesk is using TCP hole punching for P2P connection. WebRTC is a more common protocol, WebRTC support make RustDesk more universal, and it can also improve the performance of RustDesk web client.

Outcome: RustDesk over WebRTC

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Rating: Hard

Size: 350 hours

Mentor: Heap Chen RustDesk Member

Copy / Paste file on Linux and Mac

Skills: Rust, C/C++, Objective-C, Linux/Mac

Description: RustDesk has file copy / paste support under Windows. User can copy file on one side and then paste it on the other side. Current windows implementation is based on FreeRDP.

Outcome: Users can copy / paste file between local side and remote side on Linux and Mac.

Rating: Hard

Size: 350 hours

Mentor: Dragon Chen RustDesk member

Video Chat

Skills: Rust, Codecs

Description: We have text chat and audio chat now, video chat is expected by users.

Outcome: Users can have video chat

Rating: Medium

Size: 175 hours

Mentor: Sunbo RustDesk member

STUN protocol support

Skills: Rust

Description: Both Stun RFC 5389 and Turn RFC 8656/7065 are already defined standards used for the Rendezvous and Relay by many other protocols. Main use cases would be increased resilience of rustdesk due to being able to use more existing servers. Also possible increase performance by users having more server options so able to choose closer servers in some cases.

Outcome: Support STUN protocol.

Rating: Hard

Size: 350 hours

Mentor: Heap Chen RustDesk Member

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