The java viewer is no longer installed. It builds, but there is no install target for it. This was removed upstream. The reason for removal was that java applets do not work with modern browsers. However the java viewer is still useful if run directly using java -jar. The java viewer has one advantage over the c++ viewer. It can do screen scaling. So, in my opinion it is worth keeping. java/CMakeLists.txt was modified in the following commit: https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/4a4453fc69cf56f9991a13a62023969dcf5b8a4f#diff-31ed790e942fadafe334a13765d2379b7b89b1c3d65a3973a94d55a77624c5db I doubt that upstream will restore it. It is really up to distribution to choose what to install. We could of course notify upstream and see if they want to restore it. Until then there is documentation for how to restore the java client in case someone needs it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Upgrade from 1.9. /usr/share/vnc/classes/VncViewer.jar is built, but no longer installed. I'm attaching a patch to restore the correct install behaviour.
Created attachment 686205 [details, diff] Patch to that restores java viewer installation This will restore the behaviour of 1.9 where the java viewer was installed along with a README.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5b32857aad326b3f495f80c1e529f940ffb4cff0 commit 5b32857aad326b3f495f80c1e529f940ffb4cff0 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-09-17 02:14:24 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-09-17 02:14:24 +0000 net-misc/tigervnc: restore Java viewer in 1.11.x Thanks-to: Erik Wallin <erikw@sizeit.se> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/769794 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> .../tigervnc-1.11.0-install-java-viewer.patch | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++ ...-1.11.0-r3.ebuild => tigervnc-1.11.0-r4.ebuild} | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
