19 Mar
2017
19 Mar
'17
12:11 p.m.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Josh Good wrote:
The real problem is that X11 predates the "GUI
desktop metaphor". In X11
forwarding you remote bitmaps (or vectors or primitives or whatever)
which belong to an app, whereas in RDP you remote bitmaps (and only
bitmaps, and never anything more than bitmaps) which belong to a "full,
self-contained, GUI desktop".
Personally I've always strongly preferred that remote apps display on the
same desktop as local apps. This offers seemless integration, especially
if the various servers share /home.
Putting remote apps in a box always struck me as klunky. Different people
prefer each of these approaches and there is no need to force everyone in
to one solution. Losing the ability to remote display individual apps
would be a great leap backwards for me, and for lots of others.
FWIW I believe RDP does support per app remote display.
Cheers,
Rob