On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 17:58 +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
Alexander Larsson napsal(a):
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 13:23 +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
>
>> Mark McLoughlin napsal(a):
>>
>>> vino and krfb have different goals and UIs that are designed to be well
>>> integrated into their respective environments. I don't think merging
the
>>> two makes any more sense than e.g. merging evolution and kmail because
>>> they both talk the SMTP protocol.
>>>
>>>
>> I don't think that integrating to specified environment is useful in
>> this case. In my opinion kde & gnome use same xserver with same policies
>> so vino and krfb (and x11vnc) is more about xserver than about specific
>> UIs. This is main argument why could be these programs merged to one. It
>> is very easy write simple GUI with two buttons - "start remote
desktop"
>> and "stop remote desktop" - which could works under gnome and kde and
>> other window managers.
>>
>
> How is it not important that they are properly integrated into the
> desktop? Your proposal sounds very simple and ugly compared to the slick
> integration of e.g. vino.
>
>
I don't said that integration is unimportant. I said that both of krfb
and vino is much more about xserver than about window manager. Only one
think could be integrated with specified window manager - button "start
remote desktop" and "stop remote desktop".
That's not good enough. Vino is not only a vnc server, but also tightly
integrated with the desktop. I can tell somebody over the phone 'Go to
Preferences - Remote Desktop, enable it, enter a password, show
notifications, allow shared control etc' rather than 'Alt+F2, gnome-
-terminal, edit some files to setup your password then open an
application to click start remote desktop.' My non-tech sister was able
to handle the 1st option.
As Mark and others said, a common library between vino and krfb on
freedesktop.org is the way if you want to reduce the code qty. Maybe it
can also be used by clients like tsclient.
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Marius Andreiana
http://marius.andreiana.googlepages.com