baracuda/vnc in f9?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:49:35PM -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 14:57:01 Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >
> > Well for the client side of things there's a much better VNC viewer in
> > the form of Vinagre which is the new GNOME viewer using GTK-VNC. Unlike
> > any vncviewer code derived from RealVNC it actually integrates with and
> > uses modern desktop capabilities - eg, gnome-keyring, avahi discovery,
> > bookmarking of connections.
> >
> 
> There is already a program in our repositories that does that, except that it 
> is for KDE.  Krfb will use the KDE keyring (KWallet) and can use zeroconf (or 
> Konqueror will kind them and launch Krfb).
> 
> We won't stop including vncviewer in the repos, will we?  Some people may have 
> scripts or programs that interact with it (for example, a small script for 
> remotely helping people).

I'm not saying we should stop including vncviewer. I'm just saying that
discussions about whether to use the original RealVNC vncviewer vs the
Baracuda fork'd vncviewer is rather missing the point. If we want good
quality VNC clients we should spend effort on apps which take advantage
of the modern Linux desktop, beit GNOME or KDE. 

Dan.
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