Since I'm an independent developer, plans usually follow money :) Thus, what we're working on now is bringing in the next-gen Java TurboVNC viewer, adding TurboVNC-specific stuff to make it behave more like the TurboVNC Windows viewer, stabilizing it, and documenting it so that it achieves the same quality as our other viewers. Next, we will be experimenting with calling libjpeg-turbo through JNI to increase the performance to native levels.
The end game of this is an Android version of the viewer, but Java apps can quite seamlessly be put into app bundles on Mac as well, to the point that no one will know they're using a Java app. Many commercial Mac apps are really Java apps, in fact. The TigerVNC FLTK viewer would require too much work to "Turbo-ify", since it currently lacks some of the features we need. It would be hard to integrate it, since it relies so much on the TigerVNC/RealVNC infrastructure. Ideally, what I'd prefer is to write a native viewer that would replace all of our viewers, including the Windows one. FLTK could never replace our Windows GUI, so bringing in the TigerVNC code would give us three complex viewers to maintain instead of two complex viewers and one simple one. Thus, such a hypothetical next-gen TurboVNC viewer would probably need to be written using wxWidgets. That is certainly something I'm keen on pursuing if financial sponsorship can be obtained for the effort. On May 15, 2012, at 12:21 AM, James Wettenhall <james.wettenh...@monash.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm involved in developing a system featuring remote desktop and 3D graphics, > so we want to use VirtualGL. > > The "user experience" on the Mac platform is very important to us, so I'm > wondering whether there are any plans to include a native or nearly native(*) > TurboVNC viewer GUI on the Mac platform, so that users can simply > double-click an icon in their Applications folder after installing TurboVNC? > > Could this be done by porting the FLTK TigerVNC Viewer GUI across to the > TurboVNC project? > > Thanks, > James > > (*) By "native or nearly native", I mean we would prefer not to use a Java > GUI or an X11 GUI, but we think the FLTK TigerVNC viewer looks great on Mac > OS, even though it doesn't use the native Apple look and feel for its windows > and buttons etc. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > VirtualGL-Users mailing list > VirtualGL-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list VirtualGL-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
