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Bug 651544 - Screen sharing
Screen sharing
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: ekiga
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Ekiga maintainers
Ekiga maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
: 652491 693670 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-31 12:43 UTC by zoubidoo
Modified: 2020-06-06 16:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description zoubidoo 2011-05-31 12:43:13 UTC 
Allow users to see each other's screens.

Use cases:
* discuss (or give) a presentation while talking
* demonstrate some software to a potential customer
* show friends and family photos without having to send them
* providing technical help remotely, by doing it on your screen while the other person watches

Skype users already have this feature and would have to give it up when switching to Ekiga.
Comment 1 Eugen Dedu 2011-05-31 12:46:07 UTC 
Useful, indeed.
Comment 2 Eugen Dedu 2011-07-16 18:54:10 UTC 
From bug #652491 :

Reasons:
* provide technical help remotely - the other person can watch your screen
through Ekiga
* let a potential customer see a software demonstration
* other SIP and H323 video conferencing software and hardware allows screen
sharing (Polycom PVX software and Polycom video conferencing room systems-like
the Polycom VSX7000, Vidyo software, and Skype software)
Comment 3 Eugen Dedu 2011-07-16 18:54:28 UTC 
*** Bug 652491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Eugen Dedu 2013-02-12 19:30:44 UTC 
*** Bug 693670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 André Klapper 2020-06-06 16:28:42 UTC 
Ekiga is not under active development anymore:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/273

Ekiga saw its last release 7 years ago. The last code commits were 4 years ago.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (and transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active Ekiga development again in the future.