Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] Experimental browser plugin using gtk-vnc

[Anthony Liguori <anthony codemonkey ws>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:05:10PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>   
> > This is an experimental browser plugin, which uses the Gtk-VNC widget to 
> > embed a VNC viewer inside a web browser:
> >
> >   http://www.annexia.org/tmp/gtk-vnc-plugin-0.0.2.tar.gz
> >
> > Obligatory screenshot: http://www.annexia.org/tmp/Screenshot-SeaMonkey.png
> >     

Wow.  I never would have dreamed of this :-)

It makes quite a bit of sense though.  gtk-vnc would be considerably 
more usable than the various Java VNC clients especially for building a 
web-based management application for virtualization.  I really like this 
a lot.

> > Please read the README file carefully!
> >
> > This code is just for discussion.  If the Gtk-VNC developers are 
> > interested, I'd quite like to integrate this plugin into the main 
> > Gtk-VNC distribution rather than having to maintain a separate package. 
> >  Perhaps it could go in examples/ or be given its own browser/ 
> > subdirectory?
> >     
>
> Yeah, a browser/ or plugin/  directory sounds like a fine idea - probably
> with a configure.ac  flag so people can turn it on/off depending on
> whether they have neccessary mozilla (or equiv) header files. And then
> stach it in a gtk-vnc-plugin  sub-RPM
>   

Yeah, I think including it in the package is fine.  We should probably 
split out the python bindings to a separate directory too.  The 
important thing is that it's all well guarded by autoconf as I don't 
want to introduce a dependency on Mozilla :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Dan.
>