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On December 1, 2004 13:08, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> As FreeNX is not spreaded everywhere today

well, this is how one gets something spread everywhere: offering unique=20
features you can't get elsewhere ;-)

> and does not support single=20
> applications (or is this in the stable release meanwhile?)

oh, it supports single apps (rootless mode). it just isn't quite as fast as=
=20
full desktop mode right now due to not being able to take advantage of all=
=20
the compression tricks available in NX. this is slated to be fixed=20
eventually, thought.

> such a simple=20
> support for launching single remote application via traditionell X might =
be
> very welcome by some.

sure, launching isn't really the problem (assuming the bandwidth is there).=
=20
it's going to be the listing of applications that will be slow. one would=20
want the equivalent of a ksycoca running on the remote machine, really,=20
otherwise you'll be pulling a LOT of files and doing a LOT of parsing=20
(probably repeatedly =3D/). i'm going to go out on a limb here and guess th=
at=20
this will be painfully slow when used to populate a menu.

it would be better, IMHO, to be able to advertise which apps can be launche=
d=20
(as opposed to say "anything in the local kmenu") regardless of whether NX =
is=20
used to plain ol' ssh-tunnelled-X. which means having something on the serv=
er=20
side.

perhaps what could be advertised instead of a path + ssh port is an ssh por=
t=20
that one can connect to to get a list of apps available. would have to work=
=20
i18n in there somehow....

speaking of which, is there any support for i18n in the mDNS, or is that al=
l=20
left up to the client side of the query? (pardon my ignorance =3D)

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
Society is Geometric

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