I think I agree. Besides, drawterm isn't that bad even over high-latency VPN. I experimented a bit by running drawterm at work against a plan9 server at home, and it was quite usable, and much better than Emacs running over X using the same connection. Of course, Emacs IS notoriously bad at this...
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 6:28 PM Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> wrote: > 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 <https://9fans.topicbox.com/latest>* / 9fans / see discussions > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans> + participants > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/members> + delivery options > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription> Permalink > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T69dec3540d033863-M9f0ca03599a57293298a1e8c> > ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T69dec3540d033863-M15caebf66eb1efe4c2916326 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
