On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:54 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 20:45 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > >> I'd vote that we not expend too much effort in supporting multiple > >> development environments in Pippy at the moment--there are so many > >> other high-priority things to be working on. Is there really a lot of > >> demand for this from the field? > >> > >> -walter > >> > >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> > Hash: SHA1 > >> > > >> > Chris Ball wrote: > >> > | Another useful feature would be for > >> > | Write to have unique background colors for collaborators, as Gobby > >> > does. > >> > | I wonder if that would be a small enough task for someone to take on. > >> > > >> > See also #7447. Currently, Write doesn't support background colors at > >> > all. > >> > > > > > Hi Folks, > > Just so you know. The only reason for #7447 is because we > > haven't put the UI in to enable it. libabiword supports background > > colors. If the Powers That Be decide that this is an important feature > > for children it is very easy to implement it. Every feature of AbiWord > > is present in libabiword, say the word and we'll implement it for Write. > > > > I'm not sure different colors for different users is such a good idea > > though. The document will quickly become a mess. Though if the kids > > want to do this they can. > > > > Cheers > > > > Martin > > It will be much more of a mess if you can't tell who wrote what in a > collaborative editing session. Does Abiword provide change tracking, > so that users can turn author coloring on and off at will? >
AbiWord has change tracking but my experience with it is that it is more trouble than it's worth. That said, there is a bug in AbiWord-2.6.4 so that if you turn change tracking on all changes in a collaborative document are marked with the same colour. I'd better fix this so that different users get different colours during a collaboration session. Is there some feedback from the field about how kids are finding collaborative writing? Do they use it all? Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
