On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:32, manish mahabir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be very useful if i could ask a person in my pidgin list to share > screen via VNC! > > If we are able to provide live help to our friends in such a simple and easy > way, it would play crucial role in convincing our new friends to adopt > something as wonderful as linux. > > I have used VNC on my lan to connect to my friend's computer and it is > pretty simple.But if we are behind a router with dynamic ip, things get > complicated.Port forwarding is something which everybody can't do. > Integrating vnc with pidgin with auto configuration of the router will make > things simple and idiot-proof. It's importance and usability can never be > overstated. > > I am not asking for something new.Just a better integration of existing > facilities can do wonders!
I'm not sure what the status of the feature is, but Empathy (http://live.gnome.org/Empathy) may already be able to do this: see http://cass.no-ip.com/~cassidy/blog/index.php/post/2007/06/05/Stream-tubes-a-new-generation-of-tubes for an overview of how Telepathy is used. Regards Morgan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
