I installed on my SoaS I'll keep an eye out for you. Dave <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Cool icon!!! Anyone wanna join me in the activity? -walter <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have produced a new demo activity, available at > <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ebemasc/SharedTextDemo-1.xo" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/SharedTextDemo-1.xo</a> . It is a shared text > editing activity, running over the usual Telepathy collaboration system. > It does not save files. It does not offer colors or fonts or any of the > richness of Write. It is very slow, and probably buggy. SharedTextDemo > is of interest only to developers, at present. However, it is, I hope > very interesting to them. > > SharedTextDemo uses an operational transformation engine that I have been > developing for several months, to provide completely decentralized, > asynchronous, reliable document editing. Its algorithms are related to > those used by Google Wave, though surely less highly developed, and likely > much less efficient. > > The editing algorithms are not my favorite aspect of the activity. My > favorite thing about it is the API. The following is the entirety of the > main .py file: > > """ > from groupthink import sugar_tools, gtk_tools > import sugar > > SERVICE = "org.sugarlabs.SharedTextDemo" > > class SharedTextDemoActivity(sugar_tools.GroupActivity): > def __init__(self, handle): > super(SharedTextDemoActivity, self).__init__(handle, SERVICE) > > toolbox = sugar.activity.activity.ActivityToolbox(self) > self.set_toolbox(toolbox) > toolbox.show() > > self.cloud.textview = gtk_tools.SharedTextView() > self.set_canvas(self.cloud.textview) > self.show_all() > """ > > 12 nonblank lines, total. Everything else is provided by the library. > Adding a shared TextView to an existing activity takes arguably a single line. > > Groupthink is available at <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/dobject/" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/dobject/</a> > > - --Ben Schwartz > > Groupthink: Collaboration should be easy. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkokoXEACgkQUJT6e6HFtqSFrwCdE40KiikCaEqNPzR3MQwH+IQZ > escAnjgTd+Tw2bdJ0eWJ4f17IgfqY/zm > =NV4H > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > </div></div>-- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> <div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Dave Bauer <a href="mailto:dave@solutiongrove.com">dave@solutiongrove.com</a> <a href="http://www.solutiongrove.com">http://www.solutiongrove.com</a>