Re: Thoughts triggered by these NeXTbuntu guys

[Adrian Robert]

On Aug 30, 2006, at 12:12 AM, Tima Vaisburd wrote:

> I often connect to my home machine from work, and use X windows over 
> ssh
> and then cable internet provider. Since GNUstep is extremely slow on 
> that
> connection even with xlib it exludes any GNUstep program as a viable
> alternative to other X clients (but emacs, for instance, works 
> reasonably
> fast).

I hate to throw cold water on something but it's best to be honest.  ;) 
 There's not much hope for this with the present architecture.  
Essentially, pixmaps are being transferred over the wire.  Java/Swing 
applications have the same issue.  The solution would be to reengineer 
things so that 'back' ran on the display server, which is essentially 
how OS X works.