Re: Vino: proposal for inclusion in GNOME 2.8

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 11:12 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:49, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >  
> > I would really like to see this in GNOME. But if we have a VNC server,
> > we might need a VNC client also. 
> 
> 	Yeah, I'd love to see a GNOME VNC client too. I started working on one
> but haven't had the time to really get very far with it.
> 
> > The best one for GNOME seems to be
> > tsclient, so it would be wise to add support for RFB protocol encryption
> > to it, so that it works with vino.
> 
> 	Its a common misconception that tsclient is a VNC client - but its not.
> In fact, its very much *not* a VNC client :-)
> 
> 	tsclient is a dialog for constructing command lines and executing them.
> One of the command lines it allows you to construct begins with
> "vncviewer". So, its not a GNOME VNC client (like KDE's one - krdc), but
> I guess it is marginally better than the .desktop file for vncviewer in
> the short term ...
> 
right, I'm not saying tsclient is the best thing we can have, but that
it is the best right now, at least when speaking about integration,
gnome look, etc.

What happened to the gnome-vnc project someone started sometime ago
IIRC?

cheers