Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, James Cornell wrote: >> perform better. Anyone interested in the better of interoperability >> needs to spam Apple with feature requests specifically asking them to >> conform to the latest VNC protocol specification. Without customer >> demand, and I mean a lot of it, Apple buckles up and gets pushy and >> deaf. Perhaps since Chicken of the VNC is open-source, someone could >> figure out what specific changes they made to make it interoperable >> with Apple's implementation. > > It would not surprise me if Apple's VNC server is based on Chicken of > the VNC source code. That would explain why it is interoperable. Even > though VNC protocol is not all that difficult to independently > implement (I have done it), the ready availability of GPL code means > that hardly anyone has taken that approach. It would be useful to > learn how to obtain the GPL bits from OS-X and see if VNC code is > included. > > Regardless, as I mentioned before, once you get past the initial login > problem, Apple's VNC (Leopard version) manages to send one full screen > before the VNC server crashes. This indicates that there are other > implementation problems in this server. > > It would be nice if Solaris provided VNC as a standard item (including > support in the X11 server) and it would be nice if everyone could > agree to interoperate. The latter appears to be the hard part. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > Well... xVM has brought VNC server to OpenSolaris, so it's a reality. OpenSolaris doesn't bundle a VNC client afaik though.
James
