[Sugar-devel] GSoC update: Groupthink demo

[Dave Bauer]

I installed on my SoaS I'll keep an eye out for you.

Dave

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> Cool icon!!!
>
> Anyone wanna join me in the activity?
>
> -walter
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> > I have produced a new demo activity, available at
> > http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/SharedTextDemo-1.xo<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ebemasc/SharedTextDemo-1.xo>.  It is a shared text
> > editing activity, running over the usual Telepathy collaboration system.
> > It does not save files.  It does not offer colors or fonts or any of the
> > richness of Write.  It is very slow, and probably buggy.  SharedTextDemo
> > is of interest only to developers, at present.  However, it is, I hope
> > very interesting to them.
> >
> > SharedTextDemo uses an operational transformation engine that I have been
> > developing for several months, to provide completely decentralized,
> > asynchronous, reliable document editing.  Its algorithms are related to
> > those used by Google Wave, though surely less highly developed, and
> likely
> > much less efficient.
> >
> > The editing algorithms are not my favorite aspect of the activity.  My
> > favorite thing about it is the API.  The following is the entirety of the
> > main .py file:
> >
> > """
> > from groupthink import sugar_tools, gtk_tools
> > import sugar
> >
> > SERVICE = "org.sugarlabs.SharedTextDemo"
> >
> > class SharedTextDemoActivity(sugar_tools.GroupActivity):
> >    def __init__(self, handle):
> >        super(SharedTextDemoActivity, self).__init__(handle, SERVICE)
> >
> >        toolbox = sugar.activity.activity.ActivityToolbox(self)
> >        self.set_toolbox(toolbox)
> >        toolbox.show()
> >
> >        self.cloud.textview = gtk_tools.SharedTextView()
> >        self.set_canvas(self.cloud.textview)
> >        self.show_all()
> > """
> >
> > 12 nonblank lines, total.  Everything else is provided by the library.
> > Adding a shared TextView to an existing activity takes arguably a single
> line.
> >
> > Groupthink is available at http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/dobject/
> >
> > - --Ben Schwartz
> >
> > Groupthink: Collaboration should be easy.
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