Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules

[Tupshin Harper]

Jerry Westrick wrote:

> Another insteresting topic for dicusion would be looking into better
> support for VNC, which is what most people use instead of a remote
> X-Server.
>  
What would be "better" vnc support? To me, vnc support is already 
outstanding, and I use it frequently. However, it's paradigm is 
substantially more limited than using X's networking support natively. 
The ability to remotely run wm-unmanaged apps is wonderful, and vnc will 
never support that kind of thing. In addition, vnc is inherently bitmap 
based, and even with the various efficient compression mechanisms that 
it uses, it is inherently suboptimal compared with a protocol that 
understands more of the interface and event semantic such as X(though X 
is far from being optimal itself).

-Tupshin