Moving dnssd to kdelibs

[Aaron Seigo]

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 
features you can't get elsewhere ;-)

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

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

> such a simple 
> 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). 
it's going to be the listing of applications that will be slow. one would 
want the equivalent of a ksycoca running on the remote machine, really, 
otherwise you'll be pulling a LOT of files and doing a LOT of parsing 
(probably repeatedly =/). i'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that 
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 launched 
(as opposed to say "anything in the local kmenu") regardless of whether NX is 
used to plain ol' ssh-tunnelled-X. which means having something on the server 
side.

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

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

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
Society is Geometric
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