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diff --git a/gnu/packages/vnc.scm b/gnu/packages/vnc.scm index 3a4b530535..1fbe089ce8 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/vnc.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/vnc.scm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2020 Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> ;;; Copyright © 2020 Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> ;;; Copyright © 2020 Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> -;;; Copyright © 2021, 2022 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> +;;; Copyright © 2021, 2022, 2024 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> ;;; Copyright © 2022, 2024 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2022 Mehmet Tekman <mtekman89@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright @ 2022, Kitzman <kitzman@disroot.org> @@ -206,13 +206,20 @@ RDP, VNC, SPICE, NX, XDMCP, SSH and EXEC network protocols are supported.") libxdamage pixman)) (home-page "https://tigervnc.org/") - (synopsis "High-performance, platform-neutral -implementation of VNC (client)") - (description "TigerVNC is a client/server implementation of VNC (Virtual -Network Computing). It provides enough performance to run even 3D and video + (synopsis "High-performance VNC remote desktop client") + (description "TigerVNC implements a @acronym{VNC, Virtual Network Computing} +client and server. @dfn{VNC} is a remote display system that lets you view and +interact with a virtual desktop environment running on another computer on the +network. Client and server may be running on different operating systems and +architectures. + +TigerVNC uses a variant of Tight encoding that is greatly accelerated by the use +of the libjpeg-turbo JPEG codec and performs fast enough to run even 3D or video applications. It also provides extensions for advanced authentication methods -and TLS encryption. This package installs only the VNC client, the -application which is needed to connect to VNC servers.") +and @acronym{TLS, Transport-Level Security} encryption. + +This package installs only the VNC client (@command{vncviewer}), the application +used to connect to VNC servers such as the tigervnc-server package.") (license license:gpl2))) (define %tigervnc-client-source (package-source tigervnc-client)) @@ -376,12 +383,20 @@ application which is needed to connect to VNC servers.") (modify-inputs (package-propagated-inputs xorg-server) (prepend xauth))) (synopsis "High-performance VNC remote desktop server based on Xorg") - (description "TigerVNC is a client/server implementation of VNC (Virtual -Network Computing). It provides enough performance to run even 3D and video + (description "TigerVNC implements a @acronym{VNC, Virtual Network Computing} +client and server. @dfn{VNC} is a remote display system that lets you view and +interact with a virtual desktop environment running on another computer on the +network. Client and server may be running on different operating systems and +architectures. + +TigerVNC uses a variant of Tight encoding that is greatly accelerated by the use +of the libjpeg-turbo JPEG codec and performs fast enough to run even 3D or video applications. It also provides extensions for advanced authentication methods -and TLS encryption. This package installs the VNC server, a program that will -enable users with VNC clients to log into a graphical session on the machine -where the server is installed."))) +and @acronym{TLS, Transport-Level Security} encryption. + +This package installs the VNC server. Permitted users can log into a graphical +session on the machine where the server is running, using a VNC client such as +the tigervnc-client package."))) (define-public turbovnc (package |