[sugar] Programming environments on the XO

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Martin Sevior <martines at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 20:45 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
>> I'd vote that we not expend too much effort in supporting multiple
>> development environments in Pippy at the moment--there are so many
>> other high-priority things to be working on. Is there really a lot of
>> demand for this from the field?
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
>> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>> > Chris Ball wrote:
>> > | Another useful feature would be for
>> > | Write to have unique background colors for collaborators, as Gobby does.
>> > | I wonder if that would be a small enough task for someone to take on.
>> >
>> > See also #7447.  Currently, Write doesn't support background colors at all.
>> >
>
> Hi Folks,
>        Just so you know. The only reason for #7447 is because we
> haven't put the UI in to enable it. libabiword supports background
> colors. If the Powers That Be decide that this is an important feature
> for children it is very easy to implement it. Every feature of AbiWord
> is present in libabiword, say the word and we'll implement it for Write.
>
> I'm not sure different colors for different users is such a good idea
> though. The document will quickly become a mess.  Though if the kids
> want to do this they can.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin

It will be much more of a mess if you can't tell who wrote what in a
collaborative editing session. Does Abiword provide change tracking,
so that users can turn author coloring on and off at will?

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Edward Cherlin
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