Vino

I’ve just imported Vino into CVS. Its “Remote Desktop” functionality
for GNOME using VNC’s RFB
protocol which I wrote while at Sun.

Currently, the most notable bits over other VNC servers are:

• Support for encrypting the RFB protocol stream using SSL
• A dialog which prompts the user before allowing a remote user
  to connect
• Exports the local display, so you don’t have to start up a
  seperate VNC display
• Properly integrated into GNOME

More details

here.

The

TODO list includes:

• Use the new
  DAMAGE extension instead of polling the screen
• Write a GTK+ based client – the current client is a Java applet
  but you can use any other vncviewer without encryption
• Service discovery using DNS-SD and mDNS
• Better authentication schemes