commit e35651fa88890145e400132da86b163a58e0db7c
parent 5e7253086f28e01d643d91b5ee937e441ae22717
Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 23:36:51 +0200
patches welcome
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+patches are welcome!
+
+send diff, git format-patch patches, etc.
+
+possible things to improve:
+
+- right now kbinani/screenshot is used for taking a screenshot, and I'm a bit
+split about it. In theory it should work both under X and wayland so that could
+be nice. In practice though, I don't use wayland, don't think I will use it
+anytime soon, if ever, so testing and motivation to support this is not great.
+Also under X it seems much much much slower than using imlib2 directly. With
+the -snap feature, I notice I'm using mostly scrot in place of the default
+screenshot implementation, so why not just dropping screenshot and do a fast
+imlib2 implementation only for X?
+
+- when I was pondering which image format to use, jpeg was basically a good
+compromise between encoding/decoding time and file size. GIF is super fast to
+encode/decode but will generate massive files, and webp is really super slow
+for encoding/decoding and the super small file size does not matter given
+that encoding and decoding is main task of television server and clients.
+image/jpeg was however suprisingly slow so I picked apixiv/go-libjpeg instead,
+which when compiled on a system where libjpeg points to libjpeg-turbo is two
+times faster than golang's own implementation. Any room to improve further?
+
+- -idle only works on X, same remarks as above regarding wayland. Worse, I am
+not sure it's even possible to detect user activity under wayland :)
+
+- password, publishing to a public IP, etc. If this is needed, I think it's
+probably better to proxy with nginx, use tinc or some ssh tunnel, etc.
