GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 164941
RFE: remote activation
Last modified: 2006-06-14 15:57:27 UTC
Run a remote app, for instance via ssh, and display it on your GNOME desktop. Note that this app, running on some other host, doesn't know about any of the existing desktop services which advertise Bonobo. This means, for instance, that such apps, although they may be running as the same user and even sharing the same home directory via NFS, don't connect with the desktop at-spi-registryd. Though there are technical issues regarding scope (i.e. where and how long to search, whether/when to export the activation server IOR, etc.), there are cases where remote activation is useful. In particular, one may wish to locate already-running remote services.
So - I think the way to do this is with a far simpler 'activation' process for a11y - whereby we just launch the daemon with the session & store the IOR for the daemon on the root window. Ultimately, I'd like to re-work b-a-s to do something more like this internally anyway - that is, if I had any time to look at this sort of thing :-)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163132 ***