I did the research, reason is we now have citrix where I work and this was work connected. If I were in the least degree wrong given the distribution my research results was given I'm sure my supervisor would have told me long ago.
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Steve Lee wrote: > On 02/10/2007, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I can tell you exactly how well orca will work in a thin client >> environment and I can explain why. Orca requires a thick client to work >> at all, and it requires broad band access. Without those two components >> in place it will not work at all. > > I can't comment on Orca so I'll just make a couple of general points > as thin clients need to support AT as well. In the UK education > section (schoolforge.org.uk) thin client is one of the key advantages > of FOSS that can be promoted (saving cash, ease admin). I have limited > knowledge but believe the situation should not be as bad as you > present. I just needs some concentrated effort. > > * X, (the linux display system) is naturally thin client. LTSP just > gets it going and in usual desktop situations the display happens to > be on the same box as the client software. Thus most programs will > 'just work' thin client as far as display and common input is > concerned unless they have worked around it somehow. The Accessibility > APIs also work in this distributed model > * I understand sound now works with LTSP. > * As far as performance/bandwidth is concerned yes thin client pushes > the load onto infrastructure and servers. The X protocol is pretty > good and optimisations are available (NX, ndiyo). The graphics > packages that many programs and widget sets use work hard to reduce > bandwidth too (e.g cairo). > > www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Assistive_Technology_with_Terminal_Servers > > -- > Steve Lee > -- > Open Source Assistive Technology Software > PowerTalk - your presentations can speak for themselves > www.fullmeasure.co.uk > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
