Re: Automatic scroll detection and optimization of graphical updates
That's a lot of work Mike, good show! On 12/06/24 10:41, Michael Jumper wrote: Hello all, I've completed a large body of initial work in implementing a new "guac_display" API for libguac which is capable of automatically recognizing and optimizing scrolls/copies in real time: https://github.com/apache/guacamole-server/pull/525 There's definitely more to be done here, particularly since the various protocols have not yet been migrated to this, but the VNC support has at least a partial migration and the changes could use some additional eyes and feedback. There are demo videos in the above PR that show how this works in practice: https://github.com/apache/guacamole-server/pull/525#issuecomment-2161613877 This _should_: * Improve the responsiveness and efficiency of Guacamole in general. * Improve the responsiveness of Guacamole over lower-bandwidth links. * Allow protocols that do not expose information about scrolling (or do not do so consistently) to still be represented efficiently. * Make implementation of additional protocols easier. * Provide us with better metrics so that any remaining bottlenecks affecting responsiveness can be more easily isolated and improved. - Mike
Automatic scroll detection and optimization of graphical updates
Hello all, I've completed a large body of initial work in implementing a new "guac_display" API for libguac which is capable of automatically recognizing and optimizing scrolls/copies in real time: https://github.com/apache/guacamole-server/pull/525 There's definitely more to be done here, particularly since the various protocols have not yet been migrated to this, but the VNC support has at least a partial migration and the changes could use some additional eyes and feedback. There are demo videos in the above PR that show how this works in practice: https://github.com/apache/guacamole-server/pull/525#issuecomment-2161613877 This _should_: * Improve the responsiveness and efficiency of Guacamole in general. * Improve the responsiveness of Guacamole over lower-bandwidth links. * Allow protocols that do not expose information about scrolling (or do not do so consistently) to still be represented efficiently. * Make implementation of additional protocols easier. * Provide us with better metrics so that any remaining bottlenecks affecting responsiveness can be more easily isolated and improved. - Mike
