# Thus spake Wayne Throop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > There was an announcement of a linux kernel framebuffer version > of a vncviewer, which was one of the projects they said was upcoming, > but it was somebody else who finally did it.
That was me, which is why I hope I am allowed to voice my opinion on this. :) I think most of us in the vnc community agree, that the big problem vnc is facing at the moment is fragmentation. I'd like to have tight-encoding in my DirectVNC, everyone would like tight-encoding in the mac clients, most people would like to see pointer handling improved in the original vnc, my version uses autoconf the original vnc source doesnt etc etc. The logical thing to do, in my opinion, would be to bring all these projects together (tightvnc, tridia, the hexonet folks, at&t of course, svnc, directvnc, fbvnc, the mac people the list probably goes on), and agree on a modularized design where encodings and frontends can be easily added and maintained. This would probably best be done, I think, by initiating a new project, possibly on sourceforge or savannah, gather the people that want to help, and brainstorm away. After the design is agreed upon, everyone can go and write the module that encapsulates their specific platform or encoding. An alternative would be if AT&T would re-take responsibility for their baby and lead us in this effort. Now, there are two problems I can see: 1) this will probably collide with commercial interest on the part of some of the above mentioned folks working on vnc at the moment 2) I dont have a design written up yet and its probably a bad idea to come forward with this now without having thought through the details ;) Am I making sense with this? If so who'd be interested? Const? Anyone? Thanks for listening, Till Adam -- mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adam-lilienthal.de/till --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
