Bug#594902: vinagre: Please provide vncviewer alternative

[Reuben Thomas]

On 5 September 2010 15:31, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Le lundi 30 août 2010 à 15:35 +0100, Reuben Thomas a écrit :
>> Package: vinagre
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Vinagre is a VNC viewer, so please make it be an alternative for
>> /usr/bin/vncviewer.
>
> Is there a common interface that vncviewer implementations are supposed
> to implement? I’m not sure vinagre can be a drop-in replacement.

I have no idea. However, it seems to me that the main requirement is that

vncviewer HOST[:PORT]

works, and it does with vinagre. There is discussion under some bug
about whether

vncviewer [HOST]:PORT

should work (as it does with some clients), where HOST defaults to
localhost; I'm not sure this is so important.

Sorry, I don't know where this would be documented, but I guess the
thing to do is to ask the maintainers of other vncviewer providers.

I could email some of them if you like?

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