[unios] Re: Networked GUI (was Posix and Networks)

Pieter Dumon Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:47:35 +0100 (MET)


From: Pieter Dumon <Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be>

> 
> From: Anders Petersson <anders.petersson@mbox320.swipnet.se>
> 
> At 13:59 1998-12-16 , you wrote:
> >From: Pieter Dumon <Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be>
> >
> > > Yes, networking is important, in some cases very essential. Could you
> > > please mention the most important features you think a networked UI should
> > > implement?
> >
> >In X,  you can allow hosts or users on certain hosts to run programs and
> >use your display as the display of their program. You can still run your
> >own programs on yout screen or other screens , off course.
> >This means you can run programs on an application server and let those
> >programs use your local screen.
> >
> >You can also run the windows manager on a remote server on top of
> >your own X server and then run your applications (local or remote)
> 
> These are good features that absolutely should be implemented.
> (And yes, my design would handle it.)
> 
> binEng

Of course it can.

Pieter


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