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diff --git a/krfb/NOTES b/krfb/NOTES new file mode 100644 index 00000000..24b30178 --- /dev/null +++ b/krfb/NOTES @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Comments on various aspects of KRfb: + +- KRfb has been designed for three use cases: + * a user who needs help from an administrator or friend. The adminstrator can + connect to the user and change settings and so on while both are talking + on the telephone or using VoIP. + * a user who wants to show something to a friend, so he lets his friend + connect to his computer + * (advanced use case) somebody with several computers, that are running + GUIs, wants to control them. +- cases 1&2 are probably more mainstream and more important for novice users, + so KRfb is pre-configured for them. Case 3 is for advanced users and + therefore a little bit more difficult to configure. +- design goal of KRfb is to make it as easy to use as possible. I tried to + limit functionality whereever possible. +- the new-connection-dialog is extra large and has the pixmap on the left + side to capture the attention of the user before allowing a connection. +- the RFBController class is a mess. The interactions between the threaded, + callback-using libvncserver and the event-driven, single thread qt GUI are + quite complicated and I can only hope that it works. +- most limitations and problems of KRfb are caused either by limitations of + Rfb (for example no proper authentication of users, no encryption) or + by lack of a framework in Linux in general (no way to connect through a + NAT device). In the next months I am going to concentrate on improving the + latter. + |