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== Social presence ==
== Social presence ==


To be present to each other buddies need to share a space. There are two kinds of spaces in sugar: rooms and shared objects.
To be present to each other buddies need to share a space. There are two kinds of spaces in sugar: rooms and shared documents.


== Rooms ==
=== Rooms ===

You can create a chat room by double clicking on a buddy from the presence pane.


[[Image:chatstep1.jpg]]
[[Image:chatstep1.jpg]]


You can create a chat room by double clicking on a buddy from the presence pane.
It will open a new tab where you can text chat with your buddy or send him sketches you have drawn.


[[Image:chatstep2.jpg]]
[[Image:chatstep2.jpg]]

It will open a new tab where you can text chat with your buddy or send him sketches you have drawn.


[[Image:chatstep3.jpg]]
[[Image:chatstep3.jpg]]

The buttons at the bottom of the presence window allows to invite more people in the room.

=== Shared documents ===

Shared documents can be web pages, drawing canvases, wiki pages.

[[Image:everyone1.jpg]]

You can get a list of the documents buddies are sharing from the everyone page.

[[Image:history1.jpg]]

From there you can click the shared document descriptions to open them in new tabs.

[[Image:history2.jpg]]

The presence pane is available from the documents tabs too and allows you to invite more people to see the document. From the bottom it's possible to make a chat window slide in and talk with people that are currently viewing this document.


== Visual design ==
== Visual design ==

Revision as of 17:28, 5 June 2006

Goals

  • Raise ideas about social presence
  • Start figuring out our visual design and strategy

People

  • Dan Williams
  • Diana Fong
  • Bryan Clark
  • Marco Pesenti Gritti

Results

Social presence

To be present to each other buddies need to share a space. There are two kinds of spaces in sugar: rooms and shared documents.

Rooms

Chatstep1.jpg

You can create a chat room by double clicking on a buddy from the presence pane.

Chatstep2.jpg

It will open a new tab where you can text chat with your buddy or send him sketches you have drawn.

Chatstep3.jpg

The buttons at the bottom of the presence window allows to invite more people in the room.

Shared documents

Shared documents can be web pages, drawing canvases, wiki pages.

Everyone1.jpg

You can get a list of the documents buddies are sharing from the everyone page.

History1.jpg

From there you can click the shared document descriptions to open them in new tabs.

History2.jpg

The presence pane is available from the documents tabs too and allows you to invite more people to see the document. From the bottom it's possible to make a chat window slide in and talk with people that are currently viewing this document.

Visual design

  • Diana is working on mockups of the Sugar visual appeareance (yay!).
  • We are going to need to evaluate this and see how much of it is doable within our current platform.
  • The implementation is probably going to be a mix of custom (cairo drawn) and traditional widgets.

Others

(This was'nt really part of the meeting but someone added it on this page and it makes total sense, so I don't want to delete it...)

Since the recent press coverage there are many new people who wish to participate in some way. In particular, many of them are unaware of the progress that has been made with SUGAR to date and want to reimplement it. To support these people and get them on the right track, we need to point them to the existing SUGAR work. To begin with, this can be pointers to other sites, but we need to get people to write up pages on how to set up a development environment including SUGAR on normal desktop systems running Windows(Cygwin), OS X, and other UNICES.