move client capabilities flags to server source

[totaam]

Issue migrated from trac ticket # 169

component: core | priority: minor | resolution: fixed

2012-07-31 06:54:36: antoine created the issue

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this will make it easier to support multiple clients and is the right place for them

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2012-08-24 18:00:39: antoine changed status from new to accepted

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2012-08-24 18:00:39: antoine changed title from move client capabilities flags to server source to move client capabilities flags to server source - support multiple clients

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2012-08-24 18:00:39: antoine commented

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part1 done in r1365 (many details in changelog)

Now we can much more easily / think about:

• move most of process_hello to ServerSource, mmap bits, flags, etc
• move towards supporting many instances of ServerSource at once, each with a different protocol instance, with a way for clients to request damage data for themselves alone (will be tricky to avoid the acknowledge_changes only when needed..)
• start thinking about how to handle map/configure events: ignore messages from slaves? focus applies. unmap should be forwarded to the others.. move/resize? these will be hard!
• start thinking about sharing encoders/output: if two clients use the same video encoding... hard to do if we have varying framerates as we should!
• identify each client, how? (for logging, xpra info, etc)
• keyboard will be extremely difficult: if layouts are different, we need to set all of them (and run out of keycodes?), when keys are pressed/unpressed and conflict... what do we do?

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2012-08-27 19:03:45: antoine changed status from accepted to closed

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2012-08-27 19:03:45: antoine changed resolution from ** to fixed

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2012-08-27 19:03:45: antoine changed title from move client capabilities flags to server source - support multiple clients to move client capabilities flags to server source

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2012-08-27 19:03:45: antoine commented

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More in r1407, this is enough for this ticket, will follow up in #41 which is the original ticket for "multiple clients".