On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 14:45, Eben Eliason <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Wade Brainerd <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah, P2P activity sharing would be awesome. >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/Activity_Bundles >> says "Activities are meant to be shared between children. If a child >> doesn't have the activity, it is automatically transfered to the child >> when he or she joins the shared activity." but I don't believe this >> was ever implemented...? > > Right. > > To me, it sounds like the first step in building either of these > systems (automatic p2p transfer, download from browse) is figuring out > a way to publish the activity icon so that we DON'T have to show a > question mark. I would much rather show the icon for the activity that > the child doesn't have, and perhaps badge it in some way to indicate > that they don't yet have it. > > This seems desirable regardless of which solution we choose to > download the activity.
Tim, would you like at doing that with telepathy, or would you prefer to first display a "missing" icon? Thanks, Tomeu > > >> -Wade >> >> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Tim McNamara wrote: >>>> Naturally, people will probably want to click on that question mark. Would >>>> we be able to have a dialogue like "Search for activity %s?" % name, which >>>> if accepted opens up Browse and searches http://activities.sugarlabs.org to >>>> download it? >>> >>> That would be about ten times better than the current behavior. >>> >>>> This would be easiest if you can p2p file share activities... >>>> I've played around a bit, but it doesn't look especially obvious. >>> >>> Yes, that would be, by far, even better. It shouldn't be incredibly >>> difficult, since Telepathy provides us with a high-level file transfer >>> operation, but there's still some code required to (1) request the >>> transfer, (2) create a bundle if necessary, (3) transfer the bundle, (4) >>> install the bundle, and then (5) launch it. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
