[Sugar-devel] Sharing in Terminal

[Edward Cherlin]

Excellent ideas. I would like to see the same option for programming.
There are doubtless applications for joint programming, but RO would
be great for XP pair programming and for code reviews.

Now if we can integrate all of this with chat...Have a look at the
Write interface in Floss Manuals. http://en.flossmanuals.net/write You
have to log in in order to see the chat box activated.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 13:20, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> While going through  Ben Schwartz's Shared Term feature proposal
> discussion page
> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Features/Terminal_Sharing), I
> started to wonder if we could somehow implement "readonly" mode for
> sharing in the Terminal activity.
> After a weekend of hacking : I have managed to come up with the following:
>
> * First user shares Terminal - nothing in the UI changes
> * Second user joins - and gets a split screen: on the top, the shell
> running in her own machine, and the lower half showing a read only
> version of the Terminal Activity canvas in the first user's machine
> * Third user and so forth get the same experience as the second user.
>
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/shared_terminal.ogv shows a very
> barebones implementation of this. I was wondering if this would be
> useful, and if so, what would be the extra UI elements ? Probably
> there should be some way of showing the first user who has joined (in
> the activity itself), and for the other users, there should probably
> be some way to indicate/differentiate the read-only part and the
> read-write part.
>
> Of course, this has got a lot of limitations (the major one being that
> only plain text elements can be transferred, etc). I'm using the
> accessibility features of the VTE widget to scrape the screen and then
> sending the data across.
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
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> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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