[Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] Fwd: [IAEP] Sharing Images in the neighborhood - Buddy Tag

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:25, Martin Langhoff<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> Can you extend on that? I think we need to extend telepathy-gabble a
>> bit to add buddy tagging. Or are you referring to regular jabber
>> groups?
>
> Regular jabber groups. Once you make a group of users (a course in
> Moodle parlance) then the Neighbourhood view shows only your fellow
> participants.
>
> The Jabber protocol actually tells the client about various groups (if
> you're part of various courses!) but it's up to the client side to
> show them differentiated (pidgin does it, sugar doesn't).
>
> (The behaviour described above depends on a setting in Moodle.
> Defaults to 'off' which is ok for small schools that 'fit' in the NV.)
>
> This is of course Moodle-driven. If Sugar learns how to allow grouping
> on the Sugar UI, and signal that to Jabber, I'll gladly find a way to
> do something smart with that info on the Moodle/XS side.

That's great, what I see happening in the near future is Sugar
emitting tags and displaying them for each buddy in the neighborhood.
Each group name could be considered one more tag.

Regards,

Tomeu

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