Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: empathy
A friend of mine has been using Ubuntu 10.04. Because he has some newer
hardware, I recommended that he upgrade from 10.04 to 11.04, which fixes
some issues. I'm still using Ubuntu 10.04, and we typically use the
screen sharing feature in Empathy to allow me to remotely log into his
machine and fix things when needed.
Unfortunately, now that he's upgraded, it seems that, when he chats with
me using Empathy, the "Share My Desktop" menu item on his end is
disabled. However, when I use 11.04, his "Share My Desktop" option is
enabled, and works as expected. Furthermore, when I'm in 10.04 and he is
in 11.04, I can invite him to share my desktop, and this also works as
expected.
>From a user's perspective, then, it seems that the upgrade from Empathy
in 10.04 to 11.04 broke backwards compatibility between the screen
sharing feature of these two versions of Empathy, such that the newer
version cannot invite the older version to share the newer version's
desktop.
** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Desktop sharing in Empathy in 11.04 disabled when chatting with
Empathy in 10.04
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