Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-03 Thread James Simmons
Morgan, This is *exactly* what I was looking for, thanks. As a bonus I can get rid of the "keep" button as well, which is of no use to me. James Simmons Morgan Collett wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 01:21, Wade Brainerd wrote: There might be something in the Sugar Almanac, see http://s

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-03 Thread Morgan Collett
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 01:21, Wade Brainerd wrote: > There might be something in the Sugar Almanac, > see http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Resources for a link. > Alternately, an example of how to disable sharing is here: > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/math/repos/mainline/blobs/master/mat

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Happy to be proven wrong, and I guess it could be a Sugar feature not really > intended for XOs. Let's let the flowers bloom: I don't doubt that there are many ways to make *better* collaboration, on an activity-by-activity basis. But VNC is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Gary, I've used it for many years on machines much less powerful than the XO, often for an sshable net meeting with multiple participants, and I think you might need to do a few simple things to speed it up for yourself. (Remove fancy graphic backdrop, try for a smaller palette). These things are

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Feb 2009, at 01:02, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eben Eliason wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz >> wrote: > In my mind, this would work perfectly with the above scheme, > whereby > any activity th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > OK, but as an Activity author I might like to specify that cap at runtime, > depending on many things, such as the size of the document. ... start collaborating on an empty Write.xo doc, and shed participants dynamically as the documen

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > wrote: In my mind, this would work perfectly with the above scheme, whereby any activity that already has max_participants in it could be viewed in that manner

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eben Eliason wrote: >> I think that the addition of a new property in the activity.info file >> would be logical here. Make it an integer indicating the maximum >> number of supported

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: > I think that the addition of a new property in the activity.info file > would be logical here. Make it an integer indicating the maximum > number of supported participants. OK, but as an Activity author I might like to specify t