-----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