Here in Canada, many high-speed service providers are putting a monthly quota on the number of bits you can download before they charge you extra. They refer to the quota as "bandwidth" (bits per month).
People who are likely to use VNC and its variants are often not the same people who download Zigabytes of porn, video, and music. So they might be able to live within the quota, even with extended VNC sessions. One of the features that really chew up quota is the blinking cursor that many applications have. The bit-meter is constantly running. I wonder if it would be easy enough to implement a smart scheme for screen updates? That is, if there hasn't been pointer movement or keyboard events from the viewer for several minutes, there's no need to update the screen. This is a bit like having the monitor go black when there has been inactivity for a while, except we're talking a vncviewer window instead of a monitor. And it doesn't have to go blank, it just needs no updating. There are probably many nondistracting ways to indicate to the user that the viewer is in this idle mode, without disrupting the viewer content too much. Does this sound like it would be generally useful, and do-able? I don't know if I will ever have time to get up to speed on the kind of programming required, but maybe someone might get to it before me. ;) Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
