On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An appcast-like approach, where one could point to different feeds, > such as the Peru default, the G1G1 default, etc. is intriguing. But we > need to also consider connectivity limitations that many of our users > will/do experience. It might be interesting to be able to turn any XO > into a feed for other XOs.
Indeed. The "worst case" I had in my head was that the only available feed might come from the school server, so that at least while at school kids have access to all the activities the school makes available. Coming up with a means of "sniffing out" all of the activities available in the Neighborhood around you (as opposed to specifically setting an XO up to provide a feed) could also be quite interesting. There, however, we somewhat overlap with the ability to discover new things in the Neighborhood view itself (requires transparent code sharing, of course, but that's a goal of ours) and/or send files from XO to XO directly (requires object transfer, but that's a goal of ours), which makes that a lower priority in my mind. I certainly feel that a one-click way to reach *some* feed of activities, with one-click to download/install those chosen would really improve our environment. We could also discuss how updates work....perhaps there are two views in the "get more activities" dialog, one of which only shows available updates to already installed activities. - Eben _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
