From: Niklas Frykholm <r2d2@...>
Date: 2001-08-16T17:47:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19868] Re: Ruby GUI

> > Hmm, I'll never use a simple terminal again. I'd just
> > like to be able to run a graphics server on my 
> > machine that will listen to my app and draw on the
> > screen even though the app runs remotely...
> 
> So why not just use X?  I'm not arguing, just trying to get more information.  
Another option is to use VNC

	http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

If you don't want to make a VNC connection to the entire desktop you could
write a VNC server that just handled the GUI of your app, and then you could
connect to it with any VNC client. See the example at:

	http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/rfbcounter.html

A ruby GUI toolkit built on BitBlt (rather than native widgets) could have
a VNC server as one of its backends. That would make remote GUIs a breeze.

// Niklas