[Bugs] #833 UNSP: Check box in Sugar control panel to turn off/on jabber without booting

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#833: Check box in Sugar control panel to turn off/on jabber without booting
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    Reporter:  satellit                   |          Owner:  tomeu                      
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:  jabber network panel       |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |  
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Comment(by garycmartin):

 I can imagine several possible steps depending on the overall aim:

 1) Add a standard (x) clear field button to the input field (as found in
 the search input field), this would just make clearing the server name
 more obvious and easy – would be a nice detail hint if an empty server
 input box displayed a greyed out text string stating something like 'using
 local collaboration'.

 2) Give the server field a history/autocomplete, so it's easy to pull back
 a previous collaboration server name. Bonus points for allowing the
 history to be easily pre-seeded by a deployment so a school may add some
 valid alternative server names for easier switching.

 3) Servers are currently used a little like the discussed group feature,
 where different communities have their own server and switch between
 several depending who they are working with. This is a simple way to
 scale/isolate working groups for those able to set-up a collaboration
 server. If this is seen as a valid future work flow case it may be worth
 exposing the current server name, and history of others, in the
 Neighbourhood toolbar for quick and easy switching.

 FWIW, option 3 could be a replacement for the group feature, especially
 when combined with a buddy tagging scheme; where buddy tagging would allow
 easy/quick ad-hoc filtering of a server's participants, and multiple
 servers (or virtual server hosts) act as way to scale and switch to
 completely different working groups.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/833#comment:3>
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