[Sugar-devel] badges for collaborative activities

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 19:50:49 EST 2011


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

+1 In many of my activities (most of which support sharing) being able
to launch directly into sharing mode would be a real win... the logic
to negotiating the transition between stand-alone and sharing would be
eliminated, leading to less confusion all around.

-walter
>
> --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?
>>
>> --
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