Bug#980282: Should depend on gnome-remote-desktop instead of vino

[Philip Wyett]

On Sun, 2021-01-17 at 10:34 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 03:38:10 -0400, David Prévot wrote:
> > Installing Debian testing and now also using bullseye-DI-alpha3,
> > the
> > default desktop install/gnome is still installing vino and not
> > installing gnome-remote-desktop by default.
> 
> The version in gnome-team git Suggests gnome-remote-desktop and does
> not
> have any dependency relationship with vino, so that part of the bug
> can be
> considered to be pending.
> 

:-) I was checking the meta-gnome package when your email landed. That
is great and hopefully will be released soon.

> Is gnome-remote-desktop mature enough to be useful to install by
> default?
> If it is, we can promote it to Recommends or Depends.
> 

I am an occasional VNC user, but with regards gnome-remote-desktop:

* Works with wayland
* Works with X11
* Seems stable from my experience, with no crashes - yet.

I would be tempted to add it as a Depends and give bullseye users
gnome-remote-desktop. It's use, bug reports and fixes will only make it
better for future GNOME and Debian releases. It sat on the side lines
will not make for speedy stability and usability.

Note: I did check latest fedora workstation 33 and weirdly they have
both vino and gnome-remote-desktop installed by default. Why, dunno,
because that is just wrong. :-/

> I don't use VNC/RDP remote desktops myself, so I don't have any
> well-informed opinion on what is ready.
> 
>     smcv

Adding the 'debian-remote' list for their opinions. Opinions? :-)

Regards

Phil

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