Re: [Sugar-devel] annotation support in abiword (was Fwd: uwog - r29358 - in abiword/trunk: . plugins/collab/backends/service/xp plugins/collab/core/packet/xp plugins/collab/core/plugin/xp plugins/col

2010-10-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 14:51, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, On 11 Oct 2010, at 09:25, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, would be nice to add support for annotations in Write now that Abiword supports it. True, but only if you promise that the Write UI

Re: [Sugar-devel] annotation support in abiword (was Fwd: uwog - r29358 - in abiword/trunk: . plugins/collab/backends/service/xp plugins/collab/core/packet/xp plugins/collab/core/plugin/xp plugins/col

2010-10-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 11 Oct 2010, at 09:25, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, would be nice to add support for annotations in Write now that Abiword supports it. True, but only if you promise that the Write UI will get easier to use and not more difficult ;) I think we're falling

Re: [Sugar-devel] annotation support in abiword (was Fwd: uwog - r29358 - in abiword/trunk: . plugins/collab/backends/service/xp plugins/collab/core/packet/xp plugins/collab/core/plugin/xp plugins/col

2010-10-11 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, On 11 Oct 2010, at 09:25, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, would be nice to add support for annotations in Write now that Abiword supports it. True, but only if you promise that the Write

Re: [Sugar-devel] annotation support in abiword (was Fwd: uwog - r29358 - in abiword/trunk: . plugins/collab/backends/service/xp plugins/collab/core/packet/xp plugins/collab/core/plugin/xp plugins/col

2010-10-11 Thread forster
** Ideally we should try harder to better layer complexity in the Write, Calculate, et al UIs so that you need to drill down to the more complex features while the common/novice features are exposed early at the top level — but it seams there's only so far you can take this (Write and

Re: [Sugar-devel] annotation support in abiword (was Fwd: uwog - r29358 - in abiword/trunk: . plugins/collab/backends/service/xp plugins/collab/core/packet/xp plugins/collab/core/plugin/xp plugins/col

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Sevior
I think the main point of the annotation feature for Write will be allow teachers to correct children's writing. They can simply highlight a region and put in their correction or suggestion. Children can see the correction along with their original text. In abiword we do this with a dialog and a

Re: [Sugar-devel] annotation support in abiword (was Fwd: uwog - r29358 - in abiword/trunk: . plugins/collab/backends/service/xp plugins/collab/core/packet/xp plugins/collab/core/plugin/xp plugins/col

2010-10-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Martin, On 12 Oct 2010, at 00:51, Martin Sevior msev...@gmail.com wrote: I think the main point of the annotation feature for Write will be allow teachers to correct children's writing. They can simply highlight a region and put in their correction or suggestion. Children can see the

Re: [Sugar-devel] annotation support in abiword (was Fwd: uwog - r29358 - in abiword/trunk: . plugins/collab/backends/service/xp plugins/collab/core/packet/xp plugins/collab/core/plugin/xp plugins/col

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Sevior
Hi Gary, OK I just made a screenshot. You can download it from this location. http://www.abisource.com/~msevior/AnnotationSS.jpg The popup appears when you hover the mouse over the purple dotted line which shows that region of text has an annotation. Sorry the gimp removes the mouse marker when