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{{ OBX activity |[[Image:Chat-icon.jpg]]|core<!--|{{{text}}}--> }} |
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{{ OBX test |[[Tests/Chat|Chat]]<!--|2007-09-18--> }} |
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{{ OBX devtickets |chat-activity}} |
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{{ OBX team |[[User:Morgs|Morgan Collett]]}} |
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<small>see more [[:Category:OBX templates|templates]] or [[OBX proposals|propose new]]</small> |
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[[Image:activity_chat_text.jpg|right|500px|thumb|Chat activity]] |
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===Summary=== |
===Summary=== |
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The Chat activity provides a simple interface for collaborative discussion, be it between two individuals or among a group as large as an entire classroom. While a lightweight and "impermanent" chat is an integral part of Sugar as a layer above all activities and the various mesh levels, this activity devoted to textual communication keeps detailed records of the conversation within the journal and provides a means of searching through the conversation to locate important comments. |
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===Goals=== |
===Goals=== |
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<font color='red'>Many of these goals have not yet been implemented</font> |
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====Text & Image==== |
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The Chat activity will take advantage of both the keyboard and the resistive trackpad technology on the laptops, allowing the conversation to evolve with both text and image. |
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====Interactive Chat==== |
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In addition to supporting both text and drawing, the Chat activity will encourage conversation and iterative process by providing a "pull" button for each entry. When a child clicks this button the content of the chat bubble - both image and text - get pulled into the input region, allowing her to alter or append both text and image. When the modified drawing or text becomes part of the conversation, it enters the stream as a new bubble, preserving the previous comments and drawing iterations. |
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When pulling text into the editing region, it is "pasted" into the region in the normal fashion: over a selection or at the cursor location. Images, on the other hand, will be pasted in place above any currently existing drawing. |
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====File Sharing==== |
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The Chat activity doesn't explicitly expose a means for file sharing. This results from the fact that the entire Sugar UI is designed around the idea of collaboration, providing a layer above every activity for sharing images, links, and documents. This layer can be used in Chat, or in any activity, to share documents with the activity participants. |
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====Searching==== |
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The edit toolbar should provide an easy method to search for a string of text within the conversation, quickly jumping to chat bubbles that pertain to the search. Optionally we could have a filtering system which allows one to view only bubbles containing images, or all bubbles for a specific individual. |
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===Collaboration=== |
===Collaboration=== |
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Chat is a naturally collaborative activity. As such, no specific discussion is really needed beyond the overall goals for the activity. |
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=Visual Design= |
=Visual Design= |
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===Media=== |
===Media=== |
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{|border=1 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 style="border: 1px #666666 solid; border-collapse: collapse; background: #f9f9f9;" |
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!style="background:#cccccc;"|Document!!style="background:#cccccc;"|Description |
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|[[Media:activity_chat.ai.zip|Activity Mockup (216KB)]] [[:image:activity_chat.ai.zip| <font color='gray'>history</font>]]||Adobe Illustrator file containing mockups for each toolbar |
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<br clear='all'> |
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===Screenshots=== |
===Screenshots=== |
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{|style="border: solid 1px gray; margin: 1em auto 1em; auto" |
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[[Image:activity_chat_text.jpg|300px|thumb|center|Text input]] |
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[[Image:activity_chat_draw.jpg|300px|thumb|center|Drawing input]] |
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=Development= |
=Development= |
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=====[[Talk:Chat#Feature Requests|Feature Requests]]===== |
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* Video/Audio conversations - [[User:Atodorov]] |
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* Some way for children to be able to connect to remote buddies (Internet), not only ones in their Mesh network - [[User:Atodorov]] |
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=====[[Talk:Chat#Implementation Discussion|Implementation Discussion]]===== |
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=====[[Chat/Versions|Version History]]===== |
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===Source=== |
===Source=== |
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* http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/chat |
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* http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Chat/ tarballs |
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===RPMs=== |
===RPMs=== |
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*none available |
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===Resources=== |
===Resources=== |
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= Functional Test = |
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===Links=== |
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Open the Chat activity. |
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Ensure that you can send and receive text messages with another XO in the local mesh. |
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Close the activity; ensure that it closes properly. |
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{{Activity page |
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|icon=Image:Chat-icon.jpg |
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|genre=Chat, Mail, Talk |
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|activity group=Activities/G1G1 |
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|short description=A chat program. |
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|long description=A program that allows multiple XO's to communicate with each other via a mesh network or jabber server. |
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|contact person=User:Morgs |
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|activity source=http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/chat/repos/mainline |
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|language=Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, (Taiwan), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Kreyol, Mongolian, Nepali, Papiamento, Sinhala, Slovenian, Spanish, Telugu, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese |
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|language codes=af, am, ar, ay, bg, bn, ca, de, dz, el, en, es, fa, ff, fr, gu, ha, hi, ht, ig, is, it, ja, km, ko, mk, ml, mn, mr, ne, ps, pt, qu, ro, ru, rw, sd, si, sl, te, th, tr, ur, vi, yo, zh |
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|i18n=https://dev.laptop.org/translate/projects/fructose82/ |
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|bundle URL=http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-60.xo |
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|activity version=60 |
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|devel status=3. Alpha |
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}} |
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{{Activity bundle |
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|bundle URL=http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-40.xo |
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|activity version=40 |
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|releases=8.1.1 (708) |
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|devel status=5. Production-stable |
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}} |
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{{Activity bundle |
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|bundle URL=http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-48.xo |
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|activity version=48 |
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|releases=8.2.0 (767) |
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|devel status=5. Production-stable |
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}} |
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Latest revision as of 16:48, 28 May 2012
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Description & Goals
Summary
The Chat activity provides a simple interface for collaborative discussion, be it between two individuals or among a group as large as an entire classroom. While a lightweight and "impermanent" chat is an integral part of Sugar as a layer above all activities and the various mesh levels, this activity devoted to textual communication keeps detailed records of the conversation within the journal and provides a means of searching through the conversation to locate important comments.
Goals
Many of these goals have not yet been implemented
Text & Image
The Chat activity will take advantage of both the keyboard and the resistive trackpad technology on the laptops, allowing the conversation to evolve with both text and image.
Interactive Chat
In addition to supporting both text and drawing, the Chat activity will encourage conversation and iterative process by providing a "pull" button for each entry. When a child clicks this button the content of the chat bubble - both image and text - get pulled into the input region, allowing her to alter or append both text and image. When the modified drawing or text becomes part of the conversation, it enters the stream as a new bubble, preserving the previous comments and drawing iterations.
When pulling text into the editing region, it is "pasted" into the region in the normal fashion: over a selection or at the cursor location. Images, on the other hand, will be pasted in place above any currently existing drawing.
File Sharing
The Chat activity doesn't explicitly expose a means for file sharing. This results from the fact that the entire Sugar UI is designed around the idea of collaboration, providing a layer above every activity for sharing images, links, and documents. This layer can be used in Chat, or in any activity, to share documents with the activity participants.
Searching
The edit toolbar should provide an easy method to search for a string of text within the conversation, quickly jumping to chat bubbles that pertain to the search. Optionally we could have a filtering system which allows one to view only bubbles containing images, or all bubbles for a specific individual.
Collaboration
Chat is a naturally collaborative activity. As such, no specific discussion is really needed beyond the overall goals for the activity.
Visual Design
Media
| Document | Description |
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| Activity Mockup (216KB) history | Adobe Illustrator file containing mockups for each toolbar |
Screenshots
Development
Feature Requests
- Video/Audio conversations - User:Atodorov
- Some way for children to be able to connect to remote buddies (Internet), not only ones in their Mesh network - User:Atodorov
Implementation Discussion
Version History
Source
- http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/chat
- http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Chat/ tarballs
RPMs
- none available
Resources
Functional Test
Open the Chat activity.
Ensure that you can send and receive text messages with another XO in the local mesh.
Close the activity; ensure that it closes properly.
Activity Summary
| Icon: | Sugar icon::Image:Chat-icon.jpg |
| Genre: | Activity genre::Chat, Mail, Talk |
| Activity group: | ,|x|Activity group::x}} |
| Short description: | Short description::A chat program. |
| Description: | Description::A program that allows multiple XO's to communicate with each other via a mesh network or jabber server. |
| Maintainers: | ,|x|Contact person::x}} |
| Repository URL: | Source code::http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/chat/repos/mainline |
| Available languages: | ,|x|Available languages::x}} |
| Available languages (codes): | ,|x|Language code::x}} |
| Pootle URL: | Localization URL::https://dev.laptop.org/translate/projects/fructose82/ |
| Related projects: | Related projects,|x|Related projects::x}} |
| Contributors: | ,|x|Team member::x}} |
| URL from which to download the latest .xo bundle | Activity bundle::http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-60.xo |
| Last tested version number: | Activity version::60 |
| The releases with which this version of the activity has been tested. | ,|x|Software release::x}} |
| Development status: | Devel status::3. Alpha |
| Ready for testing (development has progressed to the point where testers should try it out): | ,|x|Ready for testing::x}} |
| smoke tested : | |
| test plan available : | |
| test plan executed : | |
| developer response to testing : |
| URL from which to download the last .xo bundle that works with old releases | Activity bundle::http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-40.xo |
| Activity version number: | Activity version::40 |
| The releases with which this version of the activity has been tested. | ,|x|Software release::x}} |
| Development status: | Devel status::5. Production-stable |
| URL from which to download the last .xo bundle that works with old releases | Activity bundle::http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-48.xo |
| Activity version number: | Activity version::48 |
| The releases with which this version of the activity has been tested. | ,|x|Software release::x}} |
| Development status: | Devel status::5. Production-stable |