[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ian2st$876$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "FredK" <fred.nospam at dec.com> writes:
> 
> 
> Note that from my perspective Alpha and Integrity is my target as opposed to 
> VAX.  The "new" desktop as opposed to the "old" (but I am interested in 
> understanding how many people don't use CDE and why).  "Recent" versions of 
> DECwindows.  Types of usage - exporting VMS applications or the VMS desktop. 
> Mixing native remote desktop applications (Linux/UNIX/etc) and VMS 
> applications.  Keyboard issues.  Font issues.  Locale issues (and non-US 
> country issues).  Setup issues.  Security issues.  Even testing issues :-)

   VAX is still important to us.  

   The CDE desktop has two drawbacks that prevent us from using it:

      1)  Adding scripted features is poorly documented and difficult, 
      compared to using DCL extensions in a script called from FileView.
      The documentation doesn't even address scripting, it just goes
      into what code you have to add to your C application.

      2)  The CDE combines "window manager" with "session manager".
      When not using CDE we can pull up multiple independent sessions
      from the background menus on Xterminals et. al.  When using CDE
      the whole X server gets taken over so that one can only
      communicate via the first client.

   And, of course, there are still a hell of a lot of systems out
   there that want to exchange "MIT Magic cookies".