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Originally posted by curaga View PostNo, you send the window background once, and then the text is sent as text as the user scrolls. Not a continued image stream, as the background doesn't change.
And if you need a remoting protocol that sends text as text... you know, we already have that, it's called SSH. If you just need to send text, it's perfect. You can play nethack or use the command line remotely or use any CLI app you want. But when it comes to GUIs, there just isn't any good way to send the information about UIs remotely, because you would have to define a drawing API and every app would have to use that drawing API, and any that didn't wouldn't be able to be used remotely.
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Originally posted by dee. View PostBut when it comes to GUIs, there just isn't any good way to send the information about UIs remotely, because you would have to define a drawing API and every app would have to use that drawing API, and any that didn't wouldn't be able to be used remotely.
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Originally posted by garegin View PostDaniel. I am a noob in graphics, so please bear with me.
Isn't remote rendering something like MIDI or font equivalent for GUI? By that I mean, instead of sending compressed images down the wire you tell the remote computer the "elements" like window borders or buttons and then the client just retrieves them from a local source.
Makes sense to me if you have a unified GUI like in Windows or OS X. Is this already being done in MS's RDP. Or is such a bad idea that no-one does it.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostThanks for clarifying the official position. I get you don't want this repeated, but it's kind of hard to believe you're willingly throwing away a platform advantage, and a set of users with it.
compared to a hypothetical strawman window system, i guess it's a regression, but then everything's a compromise when your competition has the luxury of not having to exist in the real world.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostThe only toolkit whose internals I'm familiar with is FLTK. It certainly draws text using the Xft API, not into a picture that is then blitted.
You are arguing from ignorance. How about we trust their experience and technical acumen a little?
I cant believe I bothered to comment. God I hate the internet.
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