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<p>add proposal</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>; Summary : Suppress Xvnc dependency on C++<br /> <br /> ; Proposer : Philippe De Muyter<br /> <br /> == Description ==<br /> Vnc is a useful protocol to connect a thin-client to a server, or in the<br /> case of embedded systems to connect a gui client to a display-less embedded<br /> system. Xvnc is the combination of a X11 server able to run all the known<br /> X11 applications, and of a vnc server offering a thin-client interface to<br /> a remote user. It offers the advantage over http that it can show spontaneous<br /> events at the server side without polling from the user side, and that it<br /> can use every X11 existing application to build the interface. For video<br /> applications it also offers for free zero-delay streaming.<br /> <br /> Although the Xorg server is written exclusively in C, the Xvnc part is written<br /> in C++. That makes its footprint unnecessarily larger, and limits its<br /> availability to platforms for which a working C++ (cross-)compiler exists.<br /> This is not always the case, even if the C compiler works.<br /> <br /> Here are IIRC the c++ files :<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> ./pvnc-1.0.5/vnc_unix/xc/programs/Xserver/vnc/Xvnc/xvnc.cc<br /> ./pvnc-1.0.5/vnc_unix/xc/programs/Xserver/vnc/vncHooks.cc<br /> ./pvnc-1.0.5/vnc_unix/xc/programs/Xserver/vnc/xf86vncModule.cc<br /> ./pvnc-1.0.5/vnc_unix/xc/programs/Xserver/vnc/module/XserverDesktop.cc<br /> ./pvnc-1.0.5/vnc_unix/xc/programs/Xserver/vnc/module/vncExtInit.cc<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Scope : This should take less than 2 weeks of development and test.<br /> <br /> == Comments ==<br /> <br /> [[Category:Project proposals]]</div>

Tim Bird