Ideas for a brand new widget toolkit

[Tobias Pankrath]

On 14.08.2013 19:35, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 02:23:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
[snip a lot of discussion of Adam and Joakim]

>> If we do it right, it will be zero effort :) GNU Screen has pretty
>> much pulled it off for unix terminal programs. GUIs have Remote
>> Desktop and friends... rdp is amazing btw, Microsoft (or whoever wrote
>> it originally and sold it to them) did an excellent job and is a
>> decent counter argument to me -  I think remote desktop is a simple
>> viewer, the rdesktop app on unix isn't a particularly large piece of
>> code and works quite well, but still I like my way.
> While remote desktop is decent, it's trying to do too much: mirroring an
> entire desktop is overkill.  Better to use a lean client that handles
> most situations.

Another solution would be to have a client/server architecture in your 
application. Usually the GUI talks via std.concurrency messages to your 
business logic and itself receives input events this way. However if 
you're doing remote it's transparently replaced with messages over the 
network.

Starting a remote session for the first time could involve wget and rdmd 
though.

The other option discussed here: 'Yeah, X11 is kinda cool, sadly the 
protocol didn't forsee the future 20 years, but the approach is right!'
will be considered failure in 20 years.