On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:03:38PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:43:06PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have > > that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a > > modest amount of additional wayland protocol (or just inter-client > > conventions) you can do spice-like things. This is good, not bad, > > because efficient remoting protocols do not look like X. Now we get to > > design a good one, and in the meantime vnc-style remoting sure does go a > > long way towards being good enough. (But, we can't switch yet, because > > we don't even have vnc-style remoting yet; so we're not switching yet.) > > Just so we don't lose the point: VNC-style remoting is *not* > a suitable alternative. >
Ajax is using VNC-style remoting to refer to a pixel-scraping remoting mechanism which would not necessarily include a root window and would in most cases function the same way as X forwarding. Seems to be a repeated confusion in this branch of the thread. --CJD > Rich. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
