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andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> If the only argument for adding GGI is so that you don't have to install
>> libsdl, then does that mean that we should have an X11, fbdev, etc.
>> backend for people who don't have GGI installed?
>>     
>
> I think a GGI back-end would be useful.
>
> I wouldn't mind also having other back-ends even if SDL supports them
> (e.g. there's an Xlib patch for qemu, it is very little code compared
> to vnc.c which you could say duplicates code already present in
> libraries). The situation is the same with audio backends: there's
> oss, alsa and SDL which can do both oss and alsa but works poorly.
>
> Unrelated to this discussion on slow links VNC is much more usable
> with the Xlib patch and Xvnc than through the built-in VNC (I think it
> makes a better decision on what format to use based on the connection
> speed).
>   

It's probably just the lack of a compressed encoding.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
> Andrew
>
>
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