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Bug 585149 - Application ShareMyDesktop
Application ShareMyDesktop
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: vino
Classification: Applications
Component: Server
2.26.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Vino Maintainer(s)
Vino Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-08 13:31 UTC by Arnaud Maillet
Modified: 2009-07-20 13:37 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Arnaud Maillet 2009-06-08 13:31:49 UTC 
The branch of ShareMyDesktop : 

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/ksz/vino.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/share

It allows to share your desktop with an empathy contact, it's based on libempathy and it's optional.

As regards
Comment 1 Jonh Wendell 2009-06-09 11:52:58 UTC 
Why not just add an option in vino capplet? Sounds weird to me add another binary and another menu entry just for that purpose...
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-06-09 12:13:26 UTC 
That sounded like a abuse of the capplet to us. capplet are for configuration.
Comment 3 Jonh Wendell 2009-06-15 13:21:44 UTC 
In the capplet we already have a (poor) way to invite users. By clicking on the link you can send an email to someone. Perhaps we should just improve that dialog adding a custom widget allowing the user to choose his buddy to share the desktop.
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-06-15 14:00:20 UTC 
I'm really not conviced, I doubt users will find this feature. Most of them just enable/disable Vino using the capplet and then forget about it.

I agree that having a separated app is far from being optimal. Ideally that should be done in an Empathy plugin but Empathy doesn't currently have any plugin support (and is not likely to gain one in the near futur).

So the question is "should we use an external app for now and improve that later or delay this feature until an undefined date?".
Comment 5 Jonh Wendell 2009-06-23 12:38:47 UTC 
Take a look at bug 471366. There's a wish to integrate sharing preferences for 3.0. What do you think?
Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-06-23 13:45:38 UTC 
Could make sense.
But I still think this feature shouldn't be in a preferences dialog.
Comment 7 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-07-15 10:17:55 UTC 
We agreed during the Empathy BOF at GUADEC to merge this feature in Empathy for now. That should be merged in the new days.

Closing this bug as it doesn't make sense any more.
Comment 8 Jonh Wendell 2009-07-15 11:19:54 UTC 
Great!
Comment 9 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-07-20 13:37:14 UTC 
FYI, the Empathy bug is #589091