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Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by thedracle »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #25

'screen -x' is screen sharing for engineers.

CTO of CoScreen:

I use TMux/Vim like this, and I totally agree if everyone is using similar tooling, screen/Tmux is good enough for sharing code.

Try CoScreen for non-invasive video/audio chat in that case, and don't use the screen sharing features.

It's made to get completely out of your way, to be persistent in the background.

And if you want to share an emulator, or documentation in Chrome, it's a click away.

Eventually we will build integrations with VSCode livesharing and other IDEs as well.

We want to help developers get things done they way they want to.

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by bmcahren »

corytheboyd wrote: post #15

I'm not sure how to ask this question in a way that doesn't sound snarky, so having said that I'll try: At the end of the day, is this beneficial enough to justify a completely new product versus just sharing your screen/window over Zoom (etc.)? When I'm pairing, I prefer to have a single "driver" where the pair is there to work through the bigger ideas and course correct code level decisions. I've never really wishe…

I hate to say it but this sounds fairly close-minded.

Does this need to be a new product? Yes.

There are no great collaboration tools for developers I've ever seen like this. I'm immediately willing to pay whatever it costs to get this for my team. No more awkward calls trying to communicate complex concepts that don't often have terminology unless you make it up. Quickly highlight and explain a conflict without back and forth or frustration about how and where it fails over 5 minutes, just kindly ask if they wouldn't mind and start editing in the use-case or failure-case to explain the concept instantly.

Have you ever had to grab someone's mouse and keyboard awkwardly to get to the point of a conversation or feature? You never have the need to do that again.

Ever had the displeasure of trying to explain something that couldn't be explained by text / call in person over their shoulder ending up back-seat driving? Never again.

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by randunel »

thedracle wrote: post #17
mempko wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks amazing. I love that you guys have Doug Engelbart subtly in your demo video on the main page. Finally we can do something Doug was able to achieve 53 years ago! No seriously, great work. This is what computers are meant for. As a Linux user I have to ask, when is the Linux release? As soon as that's out I'm throwing zoom away.

CTO of CoScreen here: It has been a grueling labor of love to get where we are, and there still is a lot of work ahead of us. And we can only acknowledge the shoulders of the giants we obviously stand on, like Doug Engelbart. Linux is definitely on our roadmap. We want to know which distros are you most interested in for us to officially support first?

The eternal answer "on our roadmap", translates from PR-speak to actual-speak: "no significant userbase to justify any work".

I guess we'll stick with gnu-screen and tmux for the time being.

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by stsmwg »

FYI, looks like the link on the FAQs for Windows is messed up in the second question.

Is CoScreen available on macOS, Windows, Linux, Mobile, or Web? macOS: yes (download - requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) Windows: yes(download - requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) Linux, Mobile, Web: coming soon, sign up for the wait list

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by thedracle »

mwcampbell wrote: post #26

To the CoScreen folks watching this thread: Have you thought about possible ways of handling the special case where one of the collaborators has a disability and needs to use a screen reader, magnifier, voice input, or some other accessibility tool? I have expertise in this area, so maybe we could discuss it more privately. Of course, this is also a challenge when everyone is together in the same place.

CTO of CoScreen here.

One of my first forays into video conferencing was programming nTouch Mobile for Sorenson Communications: https://www.sorensonvrs.com/ntouchmobile

Which was a video conferencing application for performing VRS for deaf and hard of hearing users, originally on the first Android G1, and the first iPhone.

I'm extremely interested in accessibility, and I can say seeing people get together, laugh, chat, and play, via nTouch was one of the most fulfilling moments of my life.

People make products greater than the sum of their parts, and if CoScreen could be helpful in one of these avenues, we would love to explore it.

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by coscreen »

stsmwg wrote: post #35

FYI, looks like the link on the FAQs for Windows is messed up in the second question. Is CoScreen available on macOS, Windows, Linux, Mobile, or Web? macOS: yes (download - requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) Windows: yes(download - requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) Linux, Mobile, Web: coming soon, sign up for the wait list

Oops, thanks for the note. Will fix right away...

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by corytheboyd »

woah wrote: post #27
corytheboyd wrote: post #15

I'm not sure how to ask this question in a way that doesn't sound snarky, so having said that I'll try: At the end of the day, is this beneficial enough to justify a completely new product versus just sharing your screen/window over Zoom (etc.)? When I'm pairing, I prefer to have a single "driver" where the pair is there to work through the bigger ideas and course correct code level decisions. I've never really wishe…

There used to be an app called ScreenHero, which did. this, and it was really great. For some reason Slack bought it and killed it, but I think it validated the use case

I was a huge ScreenHero fan, and will never forgive Slack for killing it

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by coscreen »

coscreen wrote: post #37
stsmwg wrote: post #35

FYI, looks like the link on the FAQs for Windows is messed up in the second question. Is CoScreen available on macOS, Windows, Linux, Mobile, or Web? macOS: yes (download - requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) Windows: yes(download - requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) Linux, Mobile, Web: coming soon, sign up for the wait list

Oops, thanks for the note. Will fix right away...

Fixed... This is what it should have said: - macOS: yes (requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) - Windows: yes (requires Windows 10 and above) - Linux, Mobile, Web: coming soon, sign up for the wait list

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by prpl »

thedracle wrote: post #36
mwcampbell wrote: post #26

To the CoScreen folks watching this thread: Have you thought about possible ways of handling the special case where one of the collaborators has a disability and needs to use a screen reader, magnifier, voice input, or some other accessibility tool? I have expertise in this area, so maybe we could discuss it more privately. Of course, this is also a challenge when everyone is together in the same place.

CTO of CoScreen here. One of my first forays into video conferencing was programming nTouch Mobile for Sorenson Communications: https://www.sorensonvrs.com/ntouchmobile Which was a video conferencing application for performing VRS for deaf and hard of hearing users, originally on the first Android G1, and the first iPhone. I'm extremely interested in accessibility, and I can say seeing people get together, laugh, cha…

I heard the test techs there were some real assholes, especially the physicist ones :)

(Hi Jason)

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