krfb/NOTES

Comments on various aspects of KRfb:

- KRfb has been designed for three use cases:
  * a user who wants to show something to a friend, so he lets his friend
    connect to his computer
  * a user who needs help from an administrator. The adminstrator can connect
    to the user and change settings and so on while both are talking
    on the telephone or using VoIP.
  * (advanced use case) somebody with several computers that are running 
    GUIs want to control them without going to them. 
- cases 1&2 are probably more mainstream and more important for novice users,
  so KRfb is pre-configured for them. Case 3 is for advanced users and 
  therefore a little bit more difficult to configure.
- by offering the connection-confirmation dialog KRfb avoids configuration 
  issues like setting a password
- design goal of KRfb is to make it as easy to use as possible. I tried to
  limit functionality whereever possible. 
- the command line args are intended for starting KRfb from a system like
  Jabber, thats the reason why there is no preferences dialog when 
  command line args have been used and it's also the reason 
  for --one-connection
- the newconnection-dialog is extra large and has the pixmap on the left 
  side to capture the attention of the user before allowing a connection. 
- the auto-port-selection feature is somewhat inconvenient when you have
  more than one VNC server running (you cannot know the port). Problems
  willbe solved in a future version when there is an invitation feature.

tim@tjansen.de