Re: [gnome-network]Gnom-Remote-Shell future direction

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 10:11 +0700, Ross Golder wrote:
> On อา., 2004-01-25 at 18:52 +0100, Ulrich Neumann wrote: 
> > I don't like this idea because people that work on a GUI most of the
> > time prefer a "Putty" like tool to get remote access to other systems.
> > This includes access to other systems like NetWare and Windows as well.
> 
> I don't understand. Please define 'people that work on a GUI'.
> 
> With all due respect, I would have to disagree about preferring to
> download Putty. I hate having to download Putty every time I'm on a
> Windows PC somewhere, and I need 'remote access to other systems'.
> 
> 
> > Otherwise people need to open a Terminal before they can open a remote
> > shell. I think many people don't find this way because it is not
> > intuitive.
> > 
> 
> Again, I'd have to disagree. I think it is far more intuitive to have
> SSH/telnet (and hopefully one day, even serial comms a.l.a. Minicom/
> HyperTrm) in one place than to have to go find out which tool you need
> and then have to download, install and configure it.
> 
> The only reason I can think of for not merging the two would be platform
> bloat, but I think that it would be minimal, and that while SSH and
> telnet are the lingua-franca of network terminal protocols, the benefits
> of merging outweigh the bloat argument.
> 
right, and the bloat is not that much, since we're just going to hook
upo a little dialog to run SSH/telnet, that's all.

cheers