On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:55:34PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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. > Baracuda is (or was? :) ) focused on working standalone Xvnc server based on X 1.5 and working libvnc.so module against 1.5 X, not on viewer Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
