On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:33 +0100, Adam Tkac 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. vino and krfb have different goals and UIs that are designed to be well integrated into their respective environments. I don't think merging the two makes any more sense than e.g. merging evolution and kmail because they both talk the SMTP protocol. > 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? A common rfb server library would definitely be useful, yes. libvncserver should be it, but it needs serious re-factoring before we could ever hope for API/ABI stability. Indeed, a common library between vino and krfb could do a lot more - e.g. the screen scraping and keyboard handling. Cheers, Mark. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
