Shared Whiteboard Using GTK Or QT? 16
Matts writes: "I work from home with a number of people from the U.S. (I live in Scotland). One thing I miss about an office is the ability to discuss things over a whiteboard. So I've been looking all over the Net for some sort of shared whiteboard facility so that I can work very quickly with short bits of text and/or drawings. The text bit is very important there. Unfortunately the only products I've found are either old and require Motif and other huge libraries, commercial, or written in Java." Many of us communicate best when we can draw pictures, and being able to scribble and chart over the Net using such an app is an extraordinary idea, especially for those of us working in the "Virtual Office".
"Other ones I've found are an add-on for mIRC (which I didn't even look at because I don't use Windows), and one called wb which appears to be part of the Mbone tools, which I couldn't find the source for and the binary for Linux wouldn't run. What I'm really after is something for either the Gnome or KDE toolkits, although straight GTK+ or QT would be just fine. Surely someone in the open source community has thought of this before - these were hot ideas when I was in university and everyone was building one!"
Re:Hate to say it... (Score:1)
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Collaborative UN*X Tools (Score:1)
Placeware (Score:1)
Why bother implementing it, it's already out there for free as long as you hav a small group. For large groups, you have to get a license.
Miguel
Re:Placeware (Score:1)
A Collaborative Window Manager (Score:1)
whiteboard (Score:1)
sorry about that one (Score:1)
-barton
Re:Hate to say it... (Score:1)
At least in my experience, Netmeeting doesn't seem to keep consistency between everyone's whiteboards very well. Drove me nuts, and I eventually gave up.
Re:Hate to say it... (Score:1)
There is also a program that allows you to exert remote control over a Unix shell session. Sun uses it for tech support. I do not remember the name of it though.
Collaborative Virtual Workspace (Score:2)
Re:Use VNC for any remote access you desire (Score:2)
An area you can draw on, with some simple primitives available. You should be able to do multiline text as though it were a text editor, and yet still draw anywhere on that text.
The ability to select who is drawing from a list of logged on users. It would just put a big "pen" besides their name.
Save to PNG.
Unfortunately VNC doesn't really offer these, and no, firing up the GIMP in VNC isn't a great solution, IMHO, as it doesn't solve the "only one person has the pen" problem.
Re:Hate to say it... (Score:2)
Re:Collaborative Virtual Workspace (Score:2)
Thanks!
Use VNC for any remote access you desire (Score:2)
I think everyone is look at this issue in the completely incorrect way. Instead of aiming for such a feature limited application like "NetMeeting", why not just share desktops?
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) [att.com] is what you seek. It runs on everything. On UNIX, it will give you multiple, virtual X-Windows sessions on a single box -- upto 99 by default -- which you can pump to Windows and other clients (even old DOS!) without a X-Server. It's basically pcAnywhere for everything, and then some (like multiple, virtual X-sessions)! I'm still finding more and more ways to use it. [ Heck, someone has even merged VNC with the NT GDI and made NT headless! ]
Run your apps remotely! Not some limited remote application! [ Is everyone in IT a victim of Microsoft marketing and thinks "NetMeeting" is desirable? If you have remote display, like UNIX with VNC, you do NOT need "NetMeeting"! ]
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith
Re:Use VNC for any remote access you desire (Score:2)
Straight from the VNC front page [att.com] under "What makes it different from other systems?":
[ CSCW = Computer Supported Cooperative Work ]
Again, use the apps you are familiar with natively when you work cooperatively! Not some stupid, limited application (like "NetMeeting")!
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith
Hate to say it... (Score:2)