VNC development plan - discuss

Adam Tkac atkac at redhat.com
Tue Mar 6 16:58:45 UTC 2007


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.
>
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>   
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". All other is really wm 
independent.

Regards, Adam




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