On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 17:35:24 UTC, Joakim wrote:
While remote desktop is decent, it's trying to do too much:
mirroring an entire desktop is overkill. Better to use a lean
client that handles most situations.
Maybe this is because I'm used to Linux, but I generally just
want to forward an application, not the entire desktop. On Linux,
this is trivial:
$ ssh -X user@host
$ gui-program <args>
However, Windows doesn't have this workflow, so mirroring the
entire desktop became necessary.
Simpler is usually better, as long as simpler doesn't prevent you
from creating something robust on top.
In a widget toolkit, I think the same applies: make just enough
controls that most people are satisfied, then make the toolkit
easy to extend with custom controls.
