[sugar] Shared Terminal Idea

[Wade Brainerd]

I totally agree with this suggestion - implementing collaboration can
be a lot of work and be error prone, so I think activity developers
tend to not get around to it.

Having a built in VNC or Remote X based 'default sharing solution',
along the lines of what LogMeIn or GotoMyPC do but on a per-activity
basis, would go a long way towards establishing the ubiquitous Sugar
collaboration experience as designed.

Then, activities with special sharing requirements, like games which
become multiplayer competitions when shared, can override this default
behavior.

Best,
Wade

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> In general, it'd be great to be able to share like this for most
> activities. Another way of thinking about sharing would be to share
> resources of multiple laptops to get a bigger workspace, e.g., some
> times it is useful to have multiple xterms open. This would seemingly
> be simple to do in the context of the X Window System if we wrap the
> appropriate Sugar/Collaboration model around it. I can think of lots
> of activities that are someone space constrained at times--having the
> option of a larger or multiple screens--putting the debugging output
> on a separate laptop, for example. Future feature wish list.
>
> -walter
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Guillaume Desmottes
> <guillaume.desmottes at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
>> Le lundi 12 mai 2008 ? 13:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz a ?crit :
>>
>> > I think shared Terminal would be very cool.  A lot of other people seem to
>>  > think so too.  It would be a fun way to learn command-line stuff, by
>>  > sharing a prompt with a remote friend.
>>  >
>>
>>  Definitely. Shared terminal could be a killer feature. I'd like to see
>>  something similar in GNOME using gnome-terminal and Empathy. Most of the
>>  work could probably be reused.
>>
>>
>>         G.
>>
>>
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