----- Original Message ----- > On 2 March 2011 12:45, brian mullan <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] (Remote Desktop can be anything, from a video streaming > service > to screenshots) > > > URL: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/ThinVnc2.aspx > > > > With Wayland in the future in several distro's (Red Hat and Ubuntu > > & > > derivatives) are technologies like this something that could be > > used in an x2go > > future? > > Red Hat? I don't think it's likely that they'll switch to Wayland in > the near future. Possibly during the next five years, but I think > it's > more likely they'll hold off further into the future. They're not > primarily a desktop company. Besides, they're going for stability and > X is about as mature as Wayland is not. > > Wayland doesn't have any remote display functionality. The developers > are discussing it, and any discussion about what protocol to use, is > pointless until we know what protocol they're going to use. Perhaps > SPICE will be of use. It works quite well for virtual machines. If > that can be built into the display server, I think that could give > some interesting results. But again... Only time will show. > > I don't understand this hunger for X over HTML. It's going to be far > less efficient and I really don't see the big benefit. except for the > ubiquity of the web browser. But is that enough to make large > concessions in efficiency and functionality? Well, the Telnet client > is available on far more computers than any SSH client is. Should we > switch back, just to increase the availability a little bit? > > I don't think it's a good idea. >
I believe the problem at hand is that there is only a Firefox plugin available. If a display could be delivered via HTML5 then it becomes truly portable. I could walk into a cyber-cafe (and yes am aware of security concerns) and connect to my work computer using FF, IE, CHROME, or any other HTML5 browser. That would make a very powerful business tool indeed. -- Thanks, Phil _______________________________________________ X2go-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
