[Sugar-devel] Removing "Register" button from sugar on non-XO machine

[Gary C Martin]

On 6 Dec 2008, at 22:20, Eben Eliason wrote:

> That depends.  I suppose we might be able to support some services,
> like backup, in interesting ways in non-school situations. I think the
> more appropriate course of action is to pursue the idea of the
> "collaboration server" as a unique device in the neighborhood.  In
> truth, the "register" option should be an action on that server
> device, and not part of the Home menu.  That was a short term hack
> which, like many we've made, has stuck due to lack of resources.  With
> my suggested change, no one would see the registration option unless
> they could make use of it.
>
> I'm CC'ing Martin, who recently emailed me on this subject (sorry for
> not getting back to you yet Martin).  We need to iron out the plan for
> representing the server and exposing the available services.  Here's a
> ticket which mentions this, though oddly it's closed, which might be
> why this has never been "done right":
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2467.
>
> - Eben

That gets my +1 – not that mine is worth much :-)

Would be great to see more service types in the neighbourhood. I can  
imagine a control panel module for each service type that either auto  
populates a list (if at all possible/practical), or/and allows entries  
to be manually added.

A current example would be jabberd services (or whatever formal name  
we want this, collaboration server (?), it's not the same as an XS);  
would be nice to have a CP module that you can add** a list of servers  
to, then each would be shown as an icon in neighbourhood, a simple  
click would switch your jabber server.

**Perhaps an XS if present would provide the default list so it's  
manageable.

--Gary

> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>  
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm going to add patch to remove "Register" button from sugar  
>> packages for
>> altlinux.  Is there any reason to have it on non-XO machine ?
>>
>> /Aleksey
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