[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Pippy shared activity view

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When the Pippy activity is shared between multiple users, the
> tree-view containing examples in the left column is hidden and only
> the source editor and the terminal widgets are visible. This is
> (probably) purposefully being done otherwise on older versions of
> Pippy, the sharing would crash.
>
> However, on the latest version of Pippy, even if the treeview is kept
> shown and some users click on it, the sharing isn't broken, rather if
> one user clicks on an example, it is loaded on everyone's screen.
>
> A possible downside of this is the fact that if a Pippy session is
> shared between many users and one user clicked on an example, all the
> other users would have no idea why their source editor window suddenly
> changed.
>
> Thus, I wanted to get an opinion whether this feature of keeping the
> treeview visible in a shared Pippy session should be integrated into
> future Pippy versions or not.
>
> Best Regards,
> Anish Mangal
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Interesting. It would be worth experimenting with hiding the treeview,
perhaps for all users except the one who initiated the share?

-walter

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Walter Bender
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