#352 NORM Opportu: Need design for integrated chat ("mesh" chat)

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#352: Need design for integrated chat ("mesh" chat)
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  Reporter:  jg                |       Owner:  Eben       
      Type:  task              |      Status:  assigned   
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Opportunity
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:             
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:             
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment(by smcv):

 How is this related to #3310? As I commented on that bug:

 > Presence Service provides a text channel (chat room) for each activity;
 this is needed for Tubes, but the idea was that this would also be used
 for some sort of overlay or sidebar chat implemented in the sugar.activity
 library. At the moment, the only activity which uses this text channel is
 Chat (everything else just ignores it), but it'd make many activities much
 more useful (I was trying out Web earlier today and thought it'd be much
 better with some sort of chat, for instance).

 > On the other hand, if you want to have a chatroom per "group", where a
 "group" is some nebulous entity like "Class 3b" or "My friends", then we'd
 need to write quite a lot of code in Presence Service to support this.

 > Would per-activity chat meet your requirements? If so, it should just
 require a UI for existing PS functionality to be designed and implemented,
 probably by adapting code from Chat; the current PS could probably be left
 untouched.

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