A native graphical shell for SSH
17 points by kehn
17 points by kehn
I think that a lot of the features here are subsumed by sshfs. If you can mount a remote filesystem on your computer so it appears on your local filesystem, then you can use any pre-existing GUI tools you want on those files. Instead of having to build a text editor from scratch to work over ssh, sshfs lets you use VSCode or Zed or whatever you prefer using. It's true that the graphical process manager looks slightly nicer than running top over ssh, but the other features just seem like reinventing ways to browse and edit files over ssh.
I agree mostly. As an idea for how to extend beyond a terminal layout, which myself I still quite love, I think it's novel and interesting. The current demos aren't, to me, very impressive, but there are many operations beyond simple file I/O where something like this, or X11 forwarding, is important.
Interesting, but... with the power of WebAssembly and modern browsers, why not just make port-forwarding easier and take advantage of good old web browsers? What do they miss (for most apps, not niche ones)?
Well, having spent the better part of my morning bashing my head against SOCKS5, a PAC file, DNS resolution, and macOS, so I would certainly love better supported paths to forward pipes around (ports or whatnot)!