You are right about one thing. People are curious about the icon. So save
yourselves a lot of trouble and just explain to them what it is. In all of
the different organizations I have worked in, I have yet to meet anyone
who likes to be spied upon. Sure you can take away the icon, but I wouldn't
want to be ya the day that someone discovers you are spying on them.
However, if you explain to people that this is a tool that you use to assist
them and that they will know when someone is peeking at their work, you may
have a chance at acceptance. People I have dealt with in the past have
accepted this situation reluctantly. What they would much rather have is
something that would prompt them, actually getting their permission for
you to look at their screen.
As I see it, you have 3 choices:
1) Explain it to them. (Takes just a minute or two and people will be that
much more knowledgable)
2) Recompile your own version of the program.
3) Use some other product.
I support the display of the icon as a very minimum standard.
Say, perhaps we could have the FAQ e-mailed to people automatically as soon
as they join the vnc-list? Hmmm. What about including an embeded number in
the FAQ that someone must enter in order to join the list. That way they
would have to read the FAQ to find the hidden number. Argh, I give up...
I appologize for this intrusion but I can't believe how often this subject
has come up over and over again thought the years.
Michael Milette
>Whilst everyone is getting tied up with pointing people at the FAQ is anyone
>noticing how many people are asking for this facility?? The FAQ says "We
>feel that there would be few legitimate uses of VNC where you would need to
>conceal its operation." - maybe this position is due for a rethink. I
>regularly need to "dip in" to people's desktops in a training environment,
>and the distraction of the icon changing colour is unwelcome. In fact the
>icon is unwelcome as it generates lots of curiosity.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Fulbright
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 9:15 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: how to hide the VNC logo ?
>>
>>
>> > How is it possible to hide the VNC logo located on the
>> taskbar (windows 98),
>> > on the right and down, even of course when VNCSERVER is
>> enabled on the PC ?
>> > If the logo is hidden, so nobody knows that Vncserver is
>> working ...!
>>
>> PLEASE read the FAQ before posting to this list.
>>
>> Dan Fulbright
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