[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Default ad-hoc networks

[Paul Fox]

frederick wrote:
 > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>wrote:
 > 
 > > On 04/27/2010 08:54 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
 > >
 > >> ...
 > >
 > >
 > 
 > What is missing is a badge to indicate if the network is active (someone has
 > > created the adhoc network already). Any good ideas how that badge could look
 > > like?
 > >
 > 
 > Shouldn't ad-hoc network icons be gray if empty/inactive and colored by the
 > creator's Sugar Learner colors once created?
 > 
 > If the creator's beacon stops, then subsequent beaconer's colors might be
 > adopted (if you want to extract that information)[1].  Although, the color
 > change may be the source of some confusion.

why would anyone care who "created" an ad-hoc network?  by their
nature (from a user's perspective) they're anonymous, especially in
this case, where their names (as i understand it) are pre-configured.

paul
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