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.
I discover the same here in Ubuntu 11.10.
Yesterday, a contact wanted to invite me to share desktop because we are working on a mutual artwork-project. He tried to send me his invitation, but I did not get this on my screen.
I use Ubuntu 11.10 on my Notebook with Gnome-Shell 3.2 and he uses LinuxMint 11 also with Gnome-Shell and also Arch-Linux with Gnome-Shell. But we discovered - as I wrote - that his invitation for desktop-sharing doesn't show up on my screen. So my question is: what is running wrong here??
Thanks for any advice.
Greetings
Linuxexperte