[Sugar-devel] question from wellington testers

[Morgan Collett]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 09:27, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<marcopg at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Tabitha Roder <tabitha.roder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> We would like to know what the friends view is for. We have used
>> neighbourhood view to join each others activities - we have about a dozen
>> XOs - but cant do this from friends view - dont know if it is a bug or not
>> meant to.
>
> Hello Tabitha and wellington testers!
>
> The usefulness of the friends group is currently very limited (if
> any).

As far as I know, our new Gadget-based server collaboration uses
friends in the following way: When there are more people on the server
than you can see, in Neighborhood View you will always see your
friends, and then a random selection of other people and activities.
This makes it more significant to "friend" people you know and want to
collaborate with, so that you will see them again. Friends View is
then a quick way to see which of your friends are on line, and to
remove friends.

As Marco said, Friends View itself will have more usefulness in future.

Regards
Morgan