* net-misc/vnc [ Masked ] Latest version available: 3.3.3-r3 Latest version installed: 3.3.3-r3 Homepage: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html Description: A remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment from anywhere. testing this i have found that there is no java client. i am not sure if this is the desired behavior. the java client can be installed seperately from this binary install, but there is no ebuild for it. upshot: it seems that either the java client should be included, or an ebuild should be made for it. also, the native client does not appear to work correctly either. the mouse cursor does not show up, the fonts are not displayed correctly, and the widgets are messed up (only tested gtk, but i assume its just a general redering issue). picture: http://brady.mine.nu/camera/vnc-messed-up.jpg thats the native vnc client with an xterm open. not sure if the java client produces correct results. will test that later. -brady
thanks brady, will work on this
right brady, I've added some stuff to the r3 ebuild which should install the java bits now. unfortunately, I had to use Mandrake's java binary stuff, coz the java source is sooooo old and deprecated (and some may say, decrepit) that it does not even compile on modern java compilers. please test and report.
well, it's in portage and masked... unless we can get some java programming gurus to update the java source, that's the best we can do, I'm afraid. prefer tightvnc to vnc anyway, from what I hear.
