On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 02:53 +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > 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 ;-) >
This is a good idea for coding. We do not do this at present, though we do have different colored carets. Cheers Martin > --Gary > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel