[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Groupthink 0.1 pre-alpha

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 18:23, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2009, at 13:02, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> can we use this on non-sugar pygtk apps?
>>
>> For example, could we use it to add collaboration features to
>> Labyrinth (a pygtk app that we are reusing as a Sugar activity)? Or
>> does it depend on Sugar in any way?
>
> Tomeu, FWIW I've tried multiple times to (politely) make contact with the
> original Labyrinth authors since Dec. Not a peep response from anyone, and
> the google mail list is dead (authorised posters only and no one is
> authorising any one new it seems). Don't hold out hope of upstream support –
> I think there's a lot of code in the core that needing changing to improve
> UI and a lot of code we don't need to bundle (custom win NT support!?). I'm
> guessing upstreaming would work much better for a project with a well
> established code-base, and an active maintainer – we seem to have neither.
>
> I'm happy to fork, and make it work its best for us under Sugar, so we have
> a solid activity.

Makes sense. What about keeping the old code or starting anew?

Regards,

Tomeu

> --G
>
>> If the data model supported sharing through telepathy tubes, I think
>> that the upstream GNOME developers would be interested in helping us
>> maintain this code.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:11, Benjamin M. Schwartz
>> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>>
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>>> Groupthink [1] is a development toolkit for collaborative activities.
>>> It's designed to hide all the collaboration boilerplate and algorithms
>>> under a clean high-level abstraction, so that Activity developers can
>>> spend more time on what they really care about.
>>>
>>> Groupthink is deeply pre-alpha.  Any application is likely to find a
>>> multitude of blocker bugs.  If that is acceptable to you, then by all
>>> means start your experiments.  If you are interested, please ask
>>> questions
>>> or read the code.
>>>
>>> As an example of the power of Groupthink, I have created a collaborative
>>> version of Chris Ball's "Words" activity, a multilingual dictionary.
>>>  This
>>> required adding the groupthink library into the bundle.  It also required
>>> two patches, attached.  Together, these patches represent a total of 5
>>> lines changed.  The resulting activity has the main input field shared
>>> synchronously across all instances.  This activity will be released,
>>> pending further testing.
>>>
>>> Groupthink: Collab should be easy.
>>>
>>> - --Ben
>>>
>>> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/dobject;a=summary
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>>>
>>> --- activity.py.orig    2009-01-12 22:51:15.000000000 -0500
>>> +++ activity.py 2009-01-12 23:31:59.000000000 -0500
>>> @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
>>> from sugar.activity import activity
>>>
>>> -class ViewSourceActivity(activity.Activity):
>>> +from groupthink.sugar_tools import GroupActivity
>>> +
>>> +class ViewSourceActivity(GroupActivity):
>>>   """Activity subclass which handles the 'view source' key."""
>>> -    def __init__(self, handle):
>>> -        super(ViewSourceActivity, self).__init__(handle)
>>> +    def __init__(self, handle, service_name):
>>> +        super(ViewSourceActivity, self).__init__(handle, service_name)
>>>       self.__source_object_id = None # XXX: persist this across
>>> invocations?
>>>       self.connect('key-press-event', self._key_press_cb)
>>>   def _key_press_cb(self, widget, event):
>>>
>>> --- pippy_app.py.orig   2009-01-13 23:37:25.000000000 -0500
>>> +++ pippy_app.py        2009-01-13 00:13:49.000000000 -0500
>>> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
>>> from sugar.activity.activity import ActivityToolbox, \
>>>    get_bundle_path, get_bundle_name
>>>
>>> +import groupthink.gtk_tools
>>> +
>>> SERVICE = "org.laptop.Words"
>>> IFACE = SERVICE
>>> PATH = "/org/laptop/Words"
>>> @@ -36,7 +38,7 @@
>>>   """Words Activity as specified in activity.info"""
>>>   def __init__(self, handle):
>>>       """Set up the Words activity."""
>>> -        super(WordsActivity, self).__init__(handle)
>>> +        super(WordsActivity, self).__init__(handle, SERVICE)
>>>       self._logger = logging.getLogger('words-activity')
>>>
>>>       from sugar.graphics.menuitem import MenuItem
>>> @@ -69,7 +71,8 @@
>>>       label2 = gtk.Label("Translation")
>>>
>>>       # Text entry box to enter word to be translated.
>>> -        self.totranslate = gtk.Entry(max=50)
>>> +        self.cloud.totranslate =
>>> groupthink.gtk_tools.RecentEntry(max=50)
>>> +        self.totranslate = self.cloud.totranslate
>>>       self.totranslate.connect("changed", self.totranslate_cb)
>>>       self.totranslate.modify_font(pango.FontDescription("Sans 14"))
>>>
>>>
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