GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 655415
Support depth color when Vinagre (VNC) is called for sharing desktop
Last modified: 2011-08-02 16:09:26 UTC
Right now Empathy 2.32.1 and Jabber accounts integration with Gnome's Vinagre is great. I can offer simple Ubuntu support for friends and family in just two clicks. I believe this is a powerful feature. But there's a problem which I think should be easy to resolve: changing color depth. This VNC feature makes VNC much faster, and it's critical when working with small bandwidth. Vinagre supports different color depths, but it seems that the way it is called from Empathy opens it with "best quality" settings, being impossible to change them. I don't know how this works, but maybe it's just a matter of a command line option when vinagre is called.
How do you tweak the color depth in Vinagre? I didn't find any option.
Created attachment 192983 [details] Vinagre Color Depth Menu
Hi Guillaume, In Vinagre 2.30.2, when you clic on "Connect", a menu appears in which you can select the color depth you want. I just attached a screenshot.
Oh right thanks. This should be done directly in Vinagre actually. Would 16 bits be a good default?
I would prefer 8 bit, which still works great and saves a lot of bandwidth.
Created attachment 193037 [details] [review] Use 8 bits color depth when connecting through a Telepathy tube
Review of attachment 193037 [details] [review]: I guess that this also affect tubes via link-local XMPP? I think that as those are local connections, they should not be set to a low colour depth.
Created attachment 193085 [details] [review] Use 8 bits color depth when connecting through a Telepathy tube
Review of attachment 193085 [details] [review]: This is perfect, thanks! I added some explanation in the commit message and pushed this to master as commit b2ab39a6be0894dee93721a18fa028166da437f2.
Thank you very much!