[openbeos] Re: patch for vim on haiku - VNC?
- From: "Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:45:53 +0200 CEST
"Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Matt Madia wrote on Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:52:15 -0500:
> > *if* VNCServer becomes stable enough, why would any of us need to
> > log in remotely to CLI?
> > although, remote-CLI would probably be faster and easier on
> > bandwidth.
>
> Definitely easier on the bandwidth! Though VNC could become much
> better under Haiku if we get some hooks for notifying the server of
> screen changes, rather than having to periodically scan the whole
> frame buffer. Darkwyrm mentioned in January 2004 that it should be
> possible to add that sort of hook to the App_server, and talked of
> making it part of the OS in R2.
>
I don't do any work on app_server, but couldn't you really add those
parts independent of any other feature (that is, not wait until R2)?
Putting my foot in my mouth, I'd say just enabling applications to have
access to the dirty rect queue shouldn't be too difficult to add.
Or?
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Mikael Jansson
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