From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pepe@naleco.com (Josh Good) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 12:56:17 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] X, Suntools, and the like In-Reply-To: References: <4227EA32-12C2-46D1-B683-88812D1E5168@tfeb.org> <3B3776C9-1B22-4143-A4F5-0BEA13C79505@tfeb.org> <20170315164006.GC26286@wopr> <20170316230455.GA21805@naleco.com> Message-ID: <20170319115617.GF21805@naleco.com> On 2017 Mar 19, 16:11, Robert Brockway wrote: > 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. 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. -- Josh Good