Remote Desktop is a great idea in theory, but in execution, it's a bit flawed.
Most of the time we use Remote Desktop/VNC, it's not the remote computer's desktop and interface we want. No, we want its programs/functionality, its data, and its power.
The ideal implementation would be a "remote shortcut", for lack of a better term. You launch it like a normal shortcut, and the application that opens runs almost like a locally installed one on the client, only there's a computer elsewhere on the network that's doing the actual heavy lifting.
It needs to go farther than that, however-the interface of the remote application must adapt itself to the client in question. Keyboard-and-mouse interfaces don't make sense on a pen-only or finger touch-only device, nor does the other way around, and screen sizes are also a major factor.
Perhaps Google has figured all this out already and plans to use such ideas to set "Chromoting" truly apart from other Remote Desktop/VNC solutions?
(Bonus points to them if it matches or surpasses StreamMyGame for-you guessed it-games. There are more than a few games and 3D applications I'd run on my notebook if not for the relatively lackluster GPU. I want a better way to harness my desktop's raw power without having to be in front of it all the time.)
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Remote Desktop is a great idea in theory, but in execution, it's a bit flawed.
Most of the time we use Remote Desktop/VNC, it's not the remote computer's desktop and interface we want. No, we want its programs/functionality, its data, and its power.
The ideal implementation would be a "remote shortcut", for lack of a better term. You launch it like a normal shortcut, and the application that opens runs almost like a locally installed one on the client, only there's a computer elsewhere on the network that's doing the actual heavy lifting.
It needs to go farther than that, however-the interface of the remote application must adapt itself to the client in question. Keyboard-and-mouse interfaces don't make sense on a pen-only or finger touch-only device, nor does the other way around, and screen sizes are also a major factor.
Perhaps Google has figured all this out already and plans to use such ideas to set "Chromoting" truly apart from other Remote Desktop/VNC solutions?
(Bonus points to them if it matches or surpasses StreamMyGame for-you guessed it-games. There are more than a few games and 3D applications I'd run on my notebook if not for the relatively lackluster GPU. I want a better way to harness my desktop's raw power without having to be in front of it all the time.)