[Telepathy] Vino-telepathy for a single window?

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Le mercredi 05 août 2009 à 12:20 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz a écrit :
> I know this is not quite the right mailing list, but...
> 
> There's been a lot of talk in Sugar-land of allowing users to "watch" an
> Activity session, and an obvious way to implement this would be VNC over a
> Stream Tube.  The Vino-telepathy codebase seems like a logical place to start.
> 
> The problem is, we only want to share a specific window, not the entire
> desktop.  In fact, the contents of other windows may be private, so for
> security reasons it's important that they not be transmitted.  Sugar
> windows are always fullscreen, so it might be easy to implement this by
> simply "pausing" the VNC server when the window is not on top.
> 
> So my question is: Do you think it would be possible, with the
> Vino+telepathy codebase, to stop and start screen updates based on an
> external signal, while allowing client-server interaction to continue?

IIRC, when I hacked on Vino/Vinagre tube integration I saw code to
"pause" a VNC session. So that should be really easy to do.



	G.