VNC is great for what it is, and I certainly wouldn’t object to seeing vncs upgraded, but it is not a replacement for drawterm. It does not expose local devices in a plan 9 friendly way. In addition to just using drawterm as a straightforward terminal, an iOS version would be a very good platform for playing around with exposing other capabilities that the device has to plan 9. I played around with this a little bit with the original port. VNC buys us none of this.
> On Mar 25, 2020, at 04:21, Kim Lassila <kim.lass...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> wrote: >> >> With iOS getting first-class mouse pointer support, I’m looking at the iOS >> drawterm port again. Has anyone touched this since the old GSoC project bit >> rotted out? > > Drawterm is quite slow at reading and writing pixels on the screen. I learned > this when I started recording screen in Plan 9 > (https://github.com/9d0/screencast). > > Instead of porting drawterm to different platforms I would like to see vncs > improved to support the latest version of the Remote Framebuffer Protocol > (RFC 6143). This would allow a standard VNC client to connect to a Plan 9 > terminal, support screen resizing, local mouse cursor, and deliver all key > strokes and mouse chords accurately. VNC is optimized to work over a large > variety of different networks including high latency links and it will > therefore offer a better user experience than drawterm, especially over > wireless. > > Kim > > 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T69dec3540d033863-M9f0ca03599a57293298a1e8c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
