Re: gnome-vnc

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Rob Clews wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I've been working on porting James Henstridge's gnome-vnc to gnome2,
> don't have any recent screenshots uploaded but older ones can be found
> on http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2957
>
> Is this something you want in gnome cvs, if so should it be a standalone
> module or part of gnome-network.
>  
Cool.  It is great to see someone working on a VNC client for Gnome 2.  
You might want to look at merging some of the code from the standard VNC 
project though (www.realvnc.com).  The latest client/server have a much 
better compression format, which makes VNC a lot more usable on slow 
links.  The client can also do automatic selection of compressor and 
bitdepth based on available bandwidth and latency (ie. use a quick 
compressor on high low latency local networks, and a better compressor 
when the network latency makes it worth while).

There shouldn't be a problem with putting it in CVS these days.  The 
reason I never checked it in was that VNC requires some DES code for the 
challenge response authentication and Red Hat was concerned about US 
export restrictions (since they host the CVS server, they could be 
considered liable).

This is a non-issue these days, since some of our core development 
platform libraries have cryptographic hooks.

James.

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