Etoys has a DMX-like feature built in -- you can tile workspaces or share a single workspace -- but it is more than what I was thinking. The idea is not so much to make a large virtual space -- although there could be times when that could be useful -- but rather to simply break an activity out into multiple views across different machines, e.g., using a remote machine to serve as the debugging console for something you are building in Pippy, etc. I don't think these sorts of things need be bandwidth intensive at all.
-walter On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Walter Bender wrote: > | In general, it'd be great to be able to share like this for most > | activities. Another way of thinking about sharing would be to share > | resources of multiple laptops to get a bigger workspace, e.g., some > | times it is useful to have multiple xterms open. This would seemingly > | be simple to do in the context of the X Window System if we wrap the > | appropriate Sugar/Collaboration model around it. I can think of lots > | of activities that are someone space constrained at times--having the > | option of a larger or multiple screens--putting the debugging output > | on a separate laptop, for example. Future feature wish list. > > What you are describing is very similar to the Distributed Multihead X > system (DMX, also called Xdmx). > See, for example, the pictures in > > (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-mltihed/index.html) > > There has been renewed interest in DMX among X developers, especially in > the context of Multiple-Pointer X (MPX) and the new rendering plans. If > you think this is of interest to Sugar, it might be worth talking to an X > expert. > > For the record, I think that this is probably not a good idea for Sugar. > DMX requires a potentially huge amount of network bandwidth, with little > tolerance for latency or packet loss. It also seems inevitably, > tremendously complicated for a user to manage. But don't listen to me; > talk to someone who actually knows where the DMX work is headed. > > - --Ben > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIKfICUJT6e6HFtqQRAvBfAJkBxjAd1TofcLBAaS3Os+aCNhamHQCgmEe6 > Wum2SQFNByhhuXN6zHTNCRc= > =/2lk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar