<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Monday 02 February 2009 21:30:46 Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:<br>
> I'm guessing someone has already suggested this on some list or other, but<br>
> in my experience kids like to watch over each other's shoulder, and a<br>
> default collaboration of "everyone watches, one person types" vnc would in<br>
> my opinion be the 80 of a collaboration 80-20 rule. I think this ought to<br>
> be implemented in the sugar infrastructure, and then let activities that<br>
> have an obvious extended collaboration (such as two person games or shared<br>
> authorship documents) do something more.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Please take a look at Chris Ball's recent work on MPX over VNC: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2009/01/26/multi-pointer-remote-desktop<br>
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><br>
> > There might be something in the Sugar Almanac, see<br>
> > http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Resources for a link.<br>
> ><br>
> > Alternately, an example of how to disable sharing is here:<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/math/repos/mainline/blobs/master/mathac<br>
> >tivity.py#line75<br>
> ><br>
> > Note to Sugar toolkit guys, I'd love to have a formal API to indicate<br>
> > "collaboration not supported".<br>
> ><br>
> > Best,<br>
> > Wade<br>
> ><br>
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:10 PM, James Simmons <jim.simmons@walgreens.com>wrote:<br>
> >> First, I want to praise whoever put together the Sugar packages for<br>
> >> Fedora 10. After struggling with Xubuntu and with sugar-jhbuild on<br>
> >> openSUSE I finally have a sugar test environment where everything seems<br>
> >> to work! It was well worth wiping out my openSUSE install and starting<br>
> >> over with a new distribution. I'll probably do the same to my Xubuntu<br>
> >> box eventually.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Second, now that I have this I want to perfect collaboration on my two<br>
> >> Activities, Read Etexts and View Slides. Unfortunately, I am convinced<br>
> >> that collaboration in View Slides that involves sending large Zip<br>
> >> archives over the network is not and never will be practical. What I'm<br>
> >> thinking about now is making the person "sharing" a slide show see only<br>
> >> the image being viewed on the XO that has the full presentation. The<br>
> >> master XO would page through the slides and those sharing would follow<br>
> >> along. I'm not sure that's practical, either.<br>
> >><br>
> >> While I'm figuring this out, what I'd really like to do is release a<br>
> >> version of View Slides that has no collaboration at all. This would<br>
> >> mean hiding the control on the Activity toolbar that supports<br>
> >> collaboration. When I figure out something intelligent to do with<br>
> >> collaboration I'll restore it. Is this possible, and how would I go<br>
> >> about doing it?<br>
> >><br>
> >> Thanks,<br>
> >><br>
> >> James Simmons<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
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