[Disclaimer: What I am currently exploring is how sugar0.88-on-XO1 behaves. I do not do much testing of system-to-system collaboration on released builds, so I do not have a "base line" to compare against.]
Left the setup (with two os240py systems talking to each other over a "new wireless network") up for a number of hours. The collaborative Activities continue to work fine. What is problematic (and confusing to the user) is the behavior of Neighborhood View: With the passage of time (and no new input at the shared Activities) the "Join this" icons have disappeared from the Neighborhood Views of the systems which did not initiate that Activity - despite the connection still being there, and inputs (when again entered) to shared Activities still being applied simultaneously to both systems. [Since the collaboration is still ongoing, I suppose there is no need for "Join this" icons - but I would prefer to see evidence of the existence of such collaboration "pathways" in every system's Neighborhood View.] Also with the passage of time (and no new input at the shared Activities) the "show other participants" icons have disappeared from the Neighborhood Views of the systems which initiated that Activity. When inputs are again entered at the non-initiating system, the "show other participants" icons reappear at the initiating system. [The intent may have been to show only *currently active* participants - but since all participants would still receive all inputs being made, I would prefer to see all participants (whether inactive or not) shown in every system's Neighborhood View.] I closed one Activity being shared across the "new wireless network" - closed it both at the non-initiating system and at the initiating system. Yet the "Join this" __icon__ is still being displayed in the Neighborhood View of the initiating system -- despite the existence of that Activity having ended more than an hour ago. [That leftover icon's palette says "Join " -- so I suspect it might be the unused 'Mesh' interface that is keeping that icon alive. When I tried (unsuccessfully) collaborating over 'Mesh', that's what the icon palettes in Neighborhood View said. When I tried (successfully) collaborating over the "new wireless network", the icon palettes in Neighborhood View showed "Join" together with the activity_name.] mikus _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
