[sugar] The futur of the mesh view

[Pascal Scheffers]

On 4 dec 2007, at 18:34, Eben Eliason wrote:

>
>> And IMHO the friends view should simply be a filtered mesh view.
>
> Right, this is my gut feeling as well.  If we choose that route, the
> remaining question is at what level we filter.  We eliminate devices
> and activities which don't have any of our friends in them, but do we
> also eliminate non-friends even if they are in a friend's activity?

That triggers different filtering idea:

I don't know where it should go, but do we need a classroom view? In a  
school I would expect it to be useful to have a view of all laptops in  
the same classroom. For example, use the filter expression on the  
neighborhood view to create a virtual class: If I have a filter  
expression #myclass, the view shows all laptops which also have that  
expression set. Sort of like IRC channels?

I know a textual expression may be a poor choice for those who can't  
write yet, so maybe the teacher sets such an expression and a special  
icon appear in the view, colors derived from the name?

- Pascal.