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As someone else mentioned, they are finally doing some more with their purchase of Screen Hero most likely. However, one major feature that Screen Hero had tha
by bluetidepro 9y ago
As someone else mentioned, they are finally doing some more with their purchase of Screen Hero most likely.
However, one major feature that Screen Hero had that I don't _THINK_ this new screen sharing built in Slack has, is the ability for the other person to control the mouse/keyboard on your screen. I could be wrong, but if that is the case it's a huge feature missing. That was one of my favorite things that Screen Hero had, being able to click for the other person or type while they were screen sharing to help them out on a task, if needed. If it's not in there for this release, I hope it gets added soon.
- ChrisClark 9y agoThat was basically the entire point of Screen Hero. So I hope this is only the first step in integration with Slack.
- austenallred 9y agoScreenhero was such a fantastic product. I miss it every day.
- levthedev 9y agoWhat do you mean you miss it? It still is around. I use it all the time.
- austenallred 9y agoYou have to have been a customer at the time it shut down to use it, which means I can use it and invite other people, but it's pretty limited
- mi100hael 9y agoIt's also included with all Slack paid accounts, existing and new.
- ckrailo 9y agoI wish ScreenHero would get open-sourced or at least fully supported as a separate piece of software. I actually think it's pretty perfect in it's current feature set. I was blown away when it got axed so fast. The multi-mouse capability was the coolest thing and made the tool fit my needs like none had before. It's the best! I get to use ScreenHero on the rare occasion these days, and it's still a joy every time. I want to use it for every screen share. Having support for personal and Slack accounts within ScreenHero would be amazing.
- richardwhiuk 9y agoPresumably also just sharing a single window which is very useful (e.g. for PowerPoints).
- numbsafari 9y agoI almost exclusively share single application windows. Sure, on Mac OS you can turn on "Do not disturb" while presenting, but it's too easy to have information from other customers, or internal, show up when you don't want it to.
- tommi 9y agoI like Slack but I'm bit hesitant to have it the ability to control my mouse and keyboard all the time. Slack is so popular that there are certainly lot attacks against it and that could be one of the biggest exploits. I really hope operating system side sandboxing features mature and I'm able to control if and when software has access to such features.
- Nition 9y agoWe can finally replicate the way movies show "hacking" where the hacker starts controlling the kb + mouse and typing "HELLO MR SMITH. YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED" in 128px font.
- yeukhon 9y agoThis has been around for years. Webex has it for a long time.
- derefr 9y ago> I really hope operating system side sandboxing features mature and I'm able to control if and when software has access to such features. In macOS at least, Slack and/or ScreenHero gets an entry under "Privacy > Accessibility" settings panel (just like apps like Synergy), where it begins disabled, and you have to explicitly go to that panel and enable it before it can do anything with your mouse/keyboard. You can disable it again at any time.
- misiti3780 9y agoIf anyone from screenhero is reading: I love screenhero and use it all the time but the one feature I need the team to add is the ability to disable another people's control of my screen. I think this feature is useful, but sometimes I'm giving a demo and just dont need it (or want it). I have fucked up multiple demos because someone accidentally clicked off my browser tab while I was controlling the screen.
- soggypopsicle 9y agoThey aren't working on Screenhero anymore.
- dkersten 9y agoThat is really sad. I like SH waaaaaay more than I like slack (which to me is a passable but not great chat app.. it eats my RAM and CPU and sometimes the css formatting breaks....) and use it all the time for remote pair programming.
- 31reasons 9y agoIf you are just giving demo, why not use Google hangout?
- erichurkman 9y agoGoogle Hangouts eats batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- tamalsaha001 9y agoGoogle Hangouts uses so much chrome, it is very hard to see on a laptop screen.
- hobarrera 9y agoYou've a few choices: 1. F11/Fullscreen 2. /usr/bin/chromium --app="https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/shiftgig.com?authuser=1" https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/shiftgig.com?authuser... The latter opens a chrome-less hangouts window. 100% hangouts.
- zaidf 9y agoMy hunch is, advance features such as those will cost a premium.
- briandear 9y agoIt does not have interactive sharing. You still need Screenhero for that.
- grappler 9y agoIn particular, I like that screenhero gives each participant their own separate mouse pointer.