On 18 Jul 2008, at 02:25, Martin Sevior wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> 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.
The codingmonkeys with their great SubEthaEdit also made very good use out of background colour tints to indicate authorship. Works really well: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/images/sessionbig.png As I remember, there is a button to toggle the background colours on and off depending what you want to see (and I think mouse over pop-ups in addition to show the authorship of a text block). Now if I actually had other friends to work with, SubEthaEdit, would have been my editor of choice ;-) --Gary _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel