19 Mar
2017
19 Mar
'17
12:56 p.m.
On 2017 Mar 19, 16:11, Robert Brockway wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Josh Good wrote:
Remoting single GUI apps can be useful in a scientific workstation and
similar settings (for example, managing some turbine in a power plant,
etc.). But remoting full, integrated desktop environments is more useful
for clerical office work and for remote administration of GUI-based
operating systems, or for remote administration of some workflow which
involves several GUI applications in a tool-chain kind of workflow.
IMHO.
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Josh Good
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.