[Trac #1472] Need to know whose laptop this is

[Walter Bender]

> Does this mean the XO colour in the Sugar UI will match the plastic XO,
> and be immutable?

No. The color on the cover is for IDing the physical machine. The XO
in the UI will be fungible and we anticipate that children may change
colors as often as they change away messages in chat.

-walter

On 5/14/07, Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Sun, 13 May 2007 at 15:03:38 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> > The new plastic will have two-tone color-coded XO logos on the back,
> > providing some amount of identification.
>
> Does this mean the XO colour in the Sugar UI will match the plastic XO,
> and be immutable? Over in sugar at l.o we've been discussing requirements
> for the presence service, and the opinion seemed to be that the colour
> would be changeable at any time - which is it? It'd help if this was
> known before I implement too much...
>
> (For the record: the opinion over there seems to be that buddies will
> have a full name and public key which can't change, and a colour and nickname
> which can)
>
>         Simon
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Walter Bender
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