On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> <[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. > > 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? -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
