On Sun, 2021-01-17 at 10:31 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 05:01:30 +0000, Philip Wyett wrote: > > Installing Debian testing and now also using bullseye-DI-alpha3, > > the > > default desktop install/gnome is still installing vino and not > > installing gnome-remote-desktop by default. > > The version of meta-gnome3 in GNOME team git Suggests gnome-remote- > desktop > and does not have a dependency relationship with vino, although > nobody > has got round to uploading this change yet. > > If you are interested in remote desktop support, your help with > testing > and if necessary backporting gnome-remote-desktop changes would be > welcome > (we have the latest upstream release, but there have been various > commits > upstream since then, and I don't have a good picture of which if any > are > important). At the moment it's only a Suggests for the gnome > metapackage, > because I'm not sure how mature it is. > > The Pipewire-based/Wayland-compatible stack does support other > implementations of remote desktop viewing/control: if web browsers > are > linked to Pipewire client libraries, then web APIs can provide > desktop > sharing, for example on videoconferencing platforms. > > I've been sporadically uploading Pipewire because nobody else was > doing it, > but I am absolutely not an expert on Pipewire, and I would be > delighted for > someone else to take over. > > smcv
Hi Simon, I am no Pipewire expert like you and some of the remote connectivity technologies that are available for use. However, I am happy to add gnome-remote-desktop to my watch packages for testing and helping out where I am able. I will look at upstream in due course and work with any other like minded individuals on this be that in the GNOME and remote teams. Regards Phil -- *** Playing the game for the games own sake. *** WWW: https://kathenas.org Twitter: @kathenasorg IRC: kathenas GPG: 724AA9B52F024C8B
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