XLibe is pretty dang cool. I’m not sure which “frontend” currently in progress is the more useful for Haiku, however. In terms of “open” applications, there’s certainly a good few I use regularly that are GTK native - but ones I would want on a Haiku desktop are fewer. Evolution, GIMP and Inkscape are probably the most notable. Wine is probably the more appealing to me, given how much upstream effort is currently going into it by companies such as Valve. So, a native Wine is also interesting - but Xlibe has clearly made that happen quicker than it might have otherwise.
Though this talk of X and Windows now makes me think about X Forwarding and RDP, and wanting a remote-desktop-to-Haiku system, since it’s something I use heavily, and the main reason I use Windows at home and work.
Actually Haiku has a very good remote desktop system in the app_server and there was even an HTML5 client though maybe right now it is quite stale. I don’t think much of this is well documented, it is something I wanted to dive into the next chance I have for serious Haiku development, which might be soon…
I couldn’t find an emoji for “shocked to death”, so you’ll just have to picture it. Colour me stunned.
It’s not wrong… Though, this isn’t quite the feature I make heavy use of. I’m very much a “thin client” kind of worker, and I often connect to my PC’s from elsewhere to access “what I’m working on” from another location. At work it’s commonly used to tweak network or permissions settings for a user, while I’m sat at their workstation.
Or in other words, I’d want persistence of session like Windows RDP, rather than remote execution like X11. This is nonetheless very cool, and encouraging that it could be extended in future. I’ll have to play with this!
I completely agree with you, I think the former is much more useful. I assume there isn’t a huge reason it couldn’t be done that way, or at least have the option to do both, sort of like how you can (on most systems at least, not Haiku yet) mirror dual screens or have each be their own screen. As noted I’ve wanted to look at this for a while so I’ll play with it. Someone else here (like @waddlesplash) might know more of the details though.
