On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 08:02 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 10:22 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Calum Benson"> > > > > > > That was just a Java web applet checked in as a jar file, wasn't it? > > > > > > Yep. It just means JDS can show an http address in the vino-preferences > > > dialog that's usable by anyone (firewalls permitting), whereas the > > > community version shows a vncviewer command that may or may not actually > > > be directly useful to whoever you're giving the instructions to. > > It was a judgement call that vncviewer would be more likely to be > usable by the people using upstream GNOME that the Java applet. Maybe > that situation has changed, but I'm not so sure - e.g. I don't have a > Java plugin installed here. The applet way is more usable
[1] vncviewer is not installed by default in some systems, such as Windows, Solaris, etc. But all systems has browser, which means type http://<vino_server>:<port>, is enough. And vino do has a feature to send out the command by email. [2] firewall tunneling +1 > > The applet was a little fugly too AFAIR ... but so is vncviewer. 'fugly' means ugly? > > Anyway, there probably wasn't any call for deleting it from CVS. There > might be some hope of improving it if it was in CVS but not installed by > default. Any history to remove those staff out of CVS? > > > Perhaps if the source were checked in (or we could have a clear dependency > > on an Open Source project that provides the jar file), we could rectify this > > problem. > > The code was always in CVS: > > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/vino/client/java/?hideattic=0 > > (How do I get at this history with svn?) > > Cheers, > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
