FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Remote Desktop

["John R. Ashmun" <jrashmun@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> >  or 
>> > should i just go email GlassElevator and see what stirs when this 
is 
>> > poured into the mix? :)
>> I was going to that by myself, but I have to look at RDP/VNC/X 
first.
>
>Maybe Fresco (http://www.fresco.org) has some interesting aspects, 
too? I sometimes read their mailing-lists and they are writing some new 
network code to get a good and portable communication layer (CORBA, 
etc. were not good enough).
>Possibly we could reuse their code (license is LGPL, so there is no 
big problem here, is it)?
>Maybe we could even replace the R2/3 app_server with Fresco? But one 
step after the other...
>
>Waldemar
>

A couple of approaches to distributing BMessages have been taken that I 
know of:  In 1996 I developed BMorb (http://www.halcyon.com/jrashmun/
bmorb.html), which consists of a class derived from BMessenger, a file 
type that contains only attributes, and a daemon to do the routing, and 
somewhat later, Jeremy Friesner developed MUSCLE (http://www.bebits.com
/app/962), which, when I last looked at it, was a good deal more 
intrusive into the development process, but is supported on non-BeOS 
systems.  Jeremy won a prize of chocolate chip cookies (from Jon Watte, 
or was it Marco?) for his demo using MUSCLE for remote desktop control, 
probably in 1997 or 1998.

Regards,
John