[X2Go-User] x2go client side printing

[Steve Bergman]

On 06/29/2014 10:13 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:

 > then I have something delicious for you, as well:


Hi Mike,

This will be quite useful to us when it makes it into the stable 
version. I have managers who receive multimedia job interviews from 
prospective employees as embedded YouTube videos on applicant broker 
sites, where the applicant gives his or her sales pitch for themselves.

Fullscreen HD isn't necessary, as it's a job application and not a Star 
Wars movie. Good performance on just the standard size YouTube video 
should be fine for most business use, I should think. But the more 
efficient the better. I think we pay around 10x more for 10mbit than our 
employees pay for 55mbit cable in their homes.

It's very nice to see this kind of a push forward in X2GO development. 
FreeNX was fantastic. But it was at about the same place when I left it 
as it was so many years ago when I first deployed it.

NX really should be a huge priority for the OSS community. But for years 
and years, it's remained the greatest killer app that no one knows 
about. And I've never understood that.

BTW, did you think it was odd that Keith indicated at Debconf that he 
used ssh -C -X over the WAN and was satisfied with it? I tried bringing 
up MATE over an ssh connection last night, and ssh -C -X was just as 
excruciatingly slow as I remembered it being. Keith was the author of 
the LBX (low bandwidth X) many years ago. And he wrote up the first 
report I ever read informing us that the real problem with X over a WAN 
connection isn't bandwidth. It's latency. And he explained about all the 
round trips. He felt he could eliminate 90% of them, IIRC.

About that time I tried remote X over an external modem so that I could 
see. It was painful to watch all those requests and responses ping-pong 
back and forth on the modem lights. I expected Keith to be really 
excited about NX's solution to that problem.

-Steve