VNC development plan - discuss

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 10:22:18 UTC 2007


On 06/03/07, Adam Tkac <atkac at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I did thinking about next development on vnc bits. Fedora 7 has three
> vnc servers - GNOME's vino, KDE's krfb and headless Xvnc with module to
> X. I'm not sure that we really need three different vnc servers in
> distribution. krfb and vino are very simillar. Both of these export real
> display. I think we could try substitute this two servers by one - for
> example x11vnc (http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/). x11vnc has more
> features than actual "real desktop" servers. So two programs could be
> removed and one added => cost of maintaining and bugfixing could be
> lower. In next stage we could discuss about standardized RFB protocol
> library which could be used by all vnc servers in distro. In the end we
> could have one rfb library which will be used by all servers (and
> viewers), one real server, one virtual server and X module. What do you
> think about this idea?
>

As an aside...
Intrigued about these different possibilities that I wasn't aware of,
I googled a bit, and found this excellent summary of the currently
available options:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/VNC




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