#6687 NORM Never A: I can't tell what I'm joining

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#6687: I can't tell what I'm joining
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 Reporter:  bemasc            |       Owner:  Eben          
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  interface-design  |     Version:                
 Keywords:                    |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:                    |   Blockedby:                
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 Someone's painting a picture in Paint. Do I want to join?  It depends
 whether it's a cool-looking mountain.

 On mouseover, it would be nice if shared activities in the mesh view
 popped up a small screenshot, like the ones in the Journal.  This would be
 especially helpful for less literate users.

 Obviously, this doesn't work as well for a game of Hearts, so this should
 be optional for Activities.  There is also the issue of whose screen is
 shown.

 This is obviously not possible with our current overloaded mesh, but with
 proper multicast routing it would be very low-bandwidth to update the
 screenshot every few minutes.  There is no privacy issue, since anyone
 seeing the screenshot could always join and see for themselves.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6687>
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