Last night I attempted to begin the chapter in my book on collaboration in Sugar. Some of my Activities do file transfers so I have had some experience with it before. It seems to me that setting up a test environment for collaboration has always been a source of frustration but I don't remember a time when I had this many things not work at the same time.
1). When I attempt to run multiple copies of sugar-emulator in Fedora 11 using this command line: SUGAR_PROFILE=mark sugar-emulator it creates a directory "mark" under ~/.sugar and prompts me for name and color selection as it should. If I then do SUGAR_PROFILE=jane sugar-emulator it creates a directory "jane" and prompts for name and colors. Now if I go back and do SUGAR_PROFILE=mark sugar-emulator again I get Jane's name and colors, or whoever I did the most recently. It looks like you can create new profiles for having multiple sugar-emulators running but you can't RETURN to any profile but the latest one you created. sugar-jhbuild on Fedora 11 is even worse. If I do something like SUGAR_PROFILE=jane ./sugar-jhbuild run it will prompt me to change my colors but NOT my name. It looks to me like there is no way to run two copies of sugar-emulator or sugar-jhbuild on Fedora 11. What am I missing here? The situation on Fedora 10 is better. There I CAN run two copies of sugar-emulator using SUGAR_PROFILE and it seems to work the way it ought to. Now I attempt to go to the Neighborhood pane in both sugar-emulators on F10 to see who's there. The documentation says that if there is no Jabber server configured then Sugar will automatically look for other Sugar users on the same network segment. It would figure that two copies of sugar-emulator running on the same damned box would be able to find each other but no. They are both alone in their neighborhoods. This doesn't bug me all that much because frankly the no Jabber option has NEVER worked for me. Not once. Not on Xubuntu, not on SUSE, not on Fedora 10, not on Fedora 11. So I try various Jabber servers from this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers Of all of them only jabber.laptop.org lets me see other users in the Neighborhood. Not the other copy of sugar-emulator I have running. No, that would be too much to hope for. But in ONE copy of sugar-emulator I see ONE other user. The other copy sees nobody. I've let both copies of sugar-emulator run for awhile and now they can both see the same set of users. Needless to say they still can't see EACH OTHER. I also have sugar-jhbuild running on my F11 box, and it can see the same three users but nobody else. I just wish I knew how to deal with this situation, or that Sugar could do something to at least give me a hint if something is wrong with my setup. If I can't get around it then the "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" book will have no chapter on collaboration. Sorry for all the venting. James Simmons _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel