[Sugar-devel] badges for collaborative activities

[Gary Martin]

On 13 Dec 2011, at 19:20, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

> Simon proposed a feature http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Can_share
> with a similar use case. Right now, the shell doesn't know if the activity can share or not.

+1

A standard variable was introduced into the activity side quite some time back so that the then new activity toolbar could automatically enable/disable the sharing toolbar button state, unfortunately the sugar shell has no access to that data :( 

> Gonzalo
> 
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:26 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
> I was playing with Sugar collaboration between my XO-1.75 and my
> crazy-nephew's XO-1.5 over the weekend.  We wanted to "play together",
> but it was hard to find which activities would let us do so.
> 
> What if we added a small badge (perhaps the "ring of dots" used to
> switch an activity from 'private' to 'shared') to activities on the
> home screen to indicate that they support collaboration?  That would
> make it easy to tell which activities allow us to play together.
>  --scott

One design that has been discussed in the past is related to the proposed home favourite view launch dialogue (the replacement for the hover/right-click palettes) – with all the additional space available in such a dialogue, a 'Start shared' option could be included for activities that flag that they support collaboration.

--Gary

> ps. "Typing Turtle" is a great new activity which I hadn't seen before
> -- but it doesn't support collaboration.  What if we could play the
> balloon-popping game together, with the first person to type the word
> getting points for popping the balloon?
> 
> --
>                          ( http://cscott.net/ )
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel