Reverse tube offering ("please give me a VNC server")
Submitted by Simon McVittie
Assigned to Telepathy bugs list
Description
Currently the actions you can do with Tubes are (using VNC desktop-sharing as an example):
- method called by Bob: "please start a VNC server and let Alice connect" (CreateChannel/Offer)
- signal seen by Alice: "Bob offered to let you connect to his VNC server" (NewChannels)
It might also be good to have the reverse:
- method called by Alice: "please ask Bob to share his desktop with me"
- signal seen by Bob: "Alice has requested that you start a VNC server and let her connect"
(after which Bob would continue as above).
In the case of VNC this would be particularly useful as a support tool, e.g. if Bob is asking Alice to show him how to do something, Alice could reply with one of these requests.