On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 10:19 +0100, Glynn Clements wrote: > Mathieu Jobin wrote: > > > several years later, you guys heard or XPRA ? > > > > https://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra > > I don't think that Xpra was around in 2005, but it has been discussed > in a number of similar threads since then; the first I can find was > April 2008. > > Xpra is essentially VNC on a window-by-window basis. As such, it has > most of the same drawbacks as VNC, the main one being that rendering > is performed by the proxy rather than the endpoint. > > Proxying at the protocol level isn't feasible for anything beyond the > simplest cases, so the optimal solution is for toolkits to provide the > ability to unrealise the widget tree and re-realize it on another > display. >
I seem to remember this very feature landing in GTK+ a few years back, but hasn't really been utilised by any DE or individual application. (I do have a vague recollection of something about the Gimp using it somehow...) _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
