Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically

[Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>]

On 2014/12/4 16:47, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

>   Hi,
> 
>> Hum.. Now, I encountered this situation that the common clienteles just use
>> tightvnc client, but want to change keymap dynamically. As you say,
>> the only way address this scenario is doing it on the server side. So,
>> do you think this patch series make sense and consider to accept it
>> in upstream? Thanks!
> 
> The alternatives are:
> 
>  * Try figure why they are using tightvnc.  Do they simply don't know
>    there are other vnc clients such as remote-viewer with much better
>    keyboard support?  Did they try other clients and want stick to
>    tightvnc nevertheless?  If so, what are the reasons?
> 

As far as I can tell, they integrate tightvnc into a web page (tightvnc
realized by Java) as a jar file in Desktop Cloud scenario on windows guests.
I don't know virt-viewing/remote-viewer whether work well on windows
platform?

Regards,
-Gonglei

>  * Try add raw scancode extension support to tightvnc (or the
>    http://tigervnc.org/ fork).
> 
> I see server-side keymap switching as last ressort if all other
> approaches failed, simply because the manual keymap configuration needed
> on the server side is error-prone and a pretty bad user experience.
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
>