From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwT2q-0006lp-Ki for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:50:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwT2k-0005Y3-Fh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:49:56 -0500 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.65]:39783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwT2j-0005Ww-Rd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:49:50 -0500 Message-ID: <54802D6E.4080704@huawei.com> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:46:22 +0800 From: Gonglei MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1417589746-12176-1-git-send-email-arei.gonglei@huawei.com> <20141203093807.GA10160@redhat.com> <547EDD01.7050608@huawei.com> <1417608638.14168.49.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> <547FC7C8.6050304@huawei.com> <1417682821.14168.128.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> In-Reply-To: <1417682821.14168.128.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: "Huangweidong (C)" , "lcapitulino@redhat.com" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "Huangpeng (Peter)" 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 > >