Vaclav Petras wrote: > Second, if we would decide to go the way of the full GUI (which resembles > current wxGUI), wouldn't be better to use something like GTK+ GDK Broadway > (1) to just reuse the desktop GUI on web,
Broadway is probably far too heavyweight. It's basically a "remote desktop" approach (the X server runs on the client, but you still have a persistent GUI application for each user running on the server). Also, it behaves like a desktop application which is exported to a web browser, not like a web application. The end result is almost identical to using a desktop application via ssh with X forwarding; if there's any advantage to Broadway, it's that it simplifies the connection setup. Basically, it's a question of "thin client" (Broadway, ssh -X, VNC, etc) versus "thick client" (web browser). Both have their pros and cons, but a thin-client solution isn't really worthy of a GSoC project IMHO (thin client approaches typically target an entire desktop environment rather than specific applications). -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
