Thread: Video using VNCviewer on nokia N900?
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2009-12-07 , 16:49
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Originally Posted by Restap View Post
Thanks a lot cddiede, for the video.
That's what I wanted to see.
It seems like it's working quite fast.
Nice.

I do have some more questions though.
Is it possible to work in real full-screen?
In the video you posted you can see the toolbar underneath.
A shame if you ask me, that this is not half transparent or something like that.
Even better would be when it could be hidden somehow.
Doe you know if this is possible?

Another question, do you really have to use the scrollbars on the right side and the bottom to scroll?
It's not very finger friendly of you ask me.
Of course you have a stylus but I like the approach of JaaduVNC for the iPhone better.
Okay, so there is still a full screen option, but that's what I showed in my video complete with the tool bar. When you exit full screen, you see the drop down menu area and the applet box so it's even more crowded.

You can tell it not to display the tool bar in full screen or windowed views, but it ignores you and still displays it.

Although it's probably a blessing in disguise since the N900 has no hardware full screen button, if you went full screen with any application that had no on screen key to un-full screen (like the web browser has), then you would have no way to exit the app or access the menu functions.

You can hide the scroll bars to free up screen space, but you really need them to move around the targeted desktop, unless that desktop has a resolution smaller then 800x480.

Overall, it's fully functional and still the best VNC viewer interface I've used on a mobile device (the stylus really make it useful compared to the iPhone version), but the screen real estate does make it feel more crowded then the N8XX version even with the same screen resolution...