<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Monday 02 February 2009 21:30:46 Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > I'm guessing someone has already suggested this on some list or other, but > in my experience kids like to watch over each other's shoulder, and a > default collaboration of "everyone watches, one person types" vnc would in > my opinion be the 80 of a collaboration 80-20 rule. I think this ought to > be implemented in the sugar infrastructure, and then let activities that > have an obvious extended collaboration (such as two person games or shared > authorship documents) do something more. Please take a look at Chris Ball's recent work on MPX over VNC: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2009/01/26/multi-pointer-remote-desktop > 2009/2/2 Wade Brainerd <wadetb@gmail.com> > > > There might be something in the Sugar Almanac, see > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Resources for a link. > > > > Alternately, an example of how to disable sharing is here: > > > > > > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/math/repos/mainline/blobs/master/mathac > >tivity.py#line75 > > > > Note to Sugar toolkit guys, I'd love to have a formal API to indicate > > "collaboration not supported". > > > > Best, > > Wade > > > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:10 PM, James Simmons <jim.simmons@walgreens.com>wrote: > >> First, I want to praise whoever put together the Sugar packages for > >> Fedora 10. After struggling with Xubuntu and with sugar-jhbuild on > >> openSUSE I finally have a sugar test environment where everything seems > >> to work! It was well worth wiping out my openSUSE install and starting > >> over with a new distribution. I'll probably do the same to my Xubuntu > >> box eventually. > >> > >> Second, now that I have this I want to perfect collaboration on my two > >> Activities, Read Etexts and View Slides. Unfortunately, I am convinced > >> that collaboration in View Slides that involves sending large Zip > >> archives over the network is not and never will be practical. What I'm > >> thinking about now is making the person "sharing" a slide show see only > >> the image being viewed on the XO that has the full presentation. The > >> master XO would page through the slides and those sharing would follow > >> along. I'm not sure that's practical, either. > >> > >> While I'm figuring this out, what I'd really like to do is release a > >> version of View Slides that has no collaboration at all. This would > >> mean hiding the control on the Activity toolbar that supports > >> collaboration. When I figure out something intelligent to do with > >> collaboration I'll restore it. Is this possible, and how would I go > >> about doing it? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> James Simmons > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Devel mailing list > >> Devel@lists.laptop.org > >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel </body></html>