That's not a great trend though. Having actual programs rather than entire desktops run remotely is amazingly handy. A desktop inside a window has never been a great experience.
Indeed it's not great at high-latency, it was invented for rooms full of local X-terminals (that were on constantly so connection loss wasn't an issue either, unless someone messed with the cable terminators :P )
I would love for this to continue being developed though, as there is still a great usecase for it IMO. But the protocol could really be cleaned up removing a lot of round-trips with locally cached variants (basically what NoMachine NX and X2GO are doing).
I do agree it makes sense in this increasingly cloud-centric world.. I hope it will eventually come too!
Indeed it's not great at high-latency, it was invented for rooms full of local X-terminals (that were on constantly so connection loss wasn't an issue either, unless someone messed with the cable terminators :P )
I would love for this to continue being developed though, as there is still a great usecase for it IMO. But the protocol could really be cleaned up removing a lot of round-trips with locally cached variants (basically what NoMachine NX and X2GO are doing).
I do agree it makes sense in this increasingly cloud-centric world.. I hope it will eventually come too!