[X2go-dev] PyHoca and the web

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Wed Mar 2 17:55:18 CET 2011


On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 16:36 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> On 2 March 2011 12:45, brian mullan <bmullan.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip] (Remote Desktop can be anything, from a video streaming service
> to screenshots)
> 
> > URL: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/ThinVnc2.aspx
> >
> > With Wayland in the future in several distro's (Red Hat and Ubuntu &
> > derivatives) are technologies like this something that could be used in an x2go
> > future?
<snip>
> Wayland doesn't have any remote display functionality. The developers
> are discussing it, and any discussion about what protocol to use, is
> pointless until we know what protocol they're going to use. Perhaps
> SPICE will be of use. It works quite well for virtual machines. If
> that can be built into the display server, I think that could give
> some interesting results. But again... Only time will show.
<snip>
Unless it has changed in the last couple of years, SPICE is an excellent
LAN protocol but a lousy WAN protocol - John




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