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

[Anish Mangal]

Hi,

After this happens, there's no way (inside Pippy) to return to the
file you were working on before.  That's why the treeview's hidden; an
accidental click on a treeview example would be extremely frustrating.

Interesting. It would be worth experimenting with hiding the treeview,
perhaps for all users except the one who initiated the share?

This could probably be useful if a teacher is facilitating a learning
session and can conveniently load examples for everyone to work upon.
However, I'm probably not the best person to comment on this, since I
have little idea how pippy is actually used in a shared learning
environment.

Anyway, I have uploaded an experimental Pippy version [1] with this
feature incorporated (including Walter's suggestion). Feel free to
test-drive and give feedback on this.

[1] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~anish/activities/pippy/Pippy-36-experimental.xo

Best Regards,
Anish Mangal -- anish at sugarlabs.org

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   > 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.
>
> After this happens, there's no way (inside Pippy) to return to the
> file you were working on before.  That's why the treeview's hidden; an
> accidental click on a treeview example would be extremely frustrating.
>
> I think that if we want to make the treeview visible again, there
> should be a way to "undo" clicks on example programs and go back to
> the original shared file.  This would be helpful for single-user
> Pippy, too.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Chris.
> --
> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
> One Laptop Per Child
>