Most people don't care, and don't use the networking-features in X.
Infact, from my experience, I would even say that most people who *DO* run graphical applications remotely, and want to display them locally - still don't care and don't use the networking-features in X.
Which is not surprising, because they're not very usable. Even something as kludgy and crappy as VNC, works an order of magnitude better, so why *should* anyone care ?
Posted Feb 14, 2012 20:57 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)
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I log in on my workstation from a laptop and run my mail client there by typing claws-mail on the command line. VNC would require extra steps. Network speed is not a concern. Why should I care about alternatives to X network support?