Re: vinagre (vnc/rdp client)

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 09:55 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Calum Benson">
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 17:55 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > ink it is a very needed thing, so go ahead please! :-)
> > > 
> > > Would that be part of Vino, or a separate application?
> > 
> > FWIW, there was actually a vino-client to accompany vino-server from day
> > one... Sun still ships it as a part of JDS.  IIRC it just got whipped out
> > of community CVS because it was written in Java :)
> 
> That was just a Java web applet checked in as a jar file, wasn't it?

Yep.  It just means JDS can show an http address in the vino-preferences
dialog that's usable by anyone (firewalls permitting), whereas the
community version shows a vncviewer command that may or may not actually
be directly useful to whoever you're giving the instructions to.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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