Re: Etoys networking

> On 2012-09-20, at 18:27, Edward Mokurai Cherlin <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, September 20, 2012 7:56 am, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2012-09-19, at 19:24, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin
>>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Badge
>>>>> Fridge
>>>>> NebraskaServer
>>>> These are all of a etoys networking experiment.
>>>> I do not think they are of much use to students unless they are
>>>> enhanced quite a bit
>>>
>>> They are used in Sugar for collaboration. On other platforms they are
>>> too
>>> hard to use in a classroom, agreed, because you have to type in IP
>>> addresses manually. It would need some equivalent of Sugar's "presence
>>> service" to easily connect to peers.
>>
>> The conclusion seems to be that they should not be exposed in the
>> Object Catalog. Is that right? Can we hide them?
>
> They are already hidden, since they do not appear in any category.

> On Thu, September 20, 2012 12:42 pm, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On 2012-09-20, at 18:27, Edward Mokurai Cherlin <[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, September 20, 2012 7:56 am, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2012-09-19, at 19:24, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin
>>>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Badge
>>>>>> Fridge
>>>>>> NebraskaServer
>>>>> These are all of a etoys networking experiment.
>>>>> I do not think they are of much use to students unless they are
>>>>> enhanced quite a bit
>>>>
>>>> They are used in Sugar for collaboration. On other platforms they are
>>>> too
>>>> hard to use in a classroom, agreed, because you have to type in IP
>>>> addresses manually. It would need some equivalent of Sugar's "presence
>>>> service" to easily connect to peers.
>>>
>>> The conclusion seems to be that they should not be exposed in the
>>> Object Catalog. Is that right? Can we hide them?
>>
>> They are already hidden, since they do not appear in any category.
>
> They are not hidden. They appear in the alphabetical listing, where
> every devoted and systematic discoverer will come upon them and be
> baffled.

> Can't help it. I'm a born lever-puller.
>
> Ringo, Yellow Submarine
>
>>> May I put your comment in the manual as an explanation of why there is
>>> no explanation of these objects? ^_^
>>
>>
>> Or an explanation how they work.
>
> That would be fine, if I had one, or if somebody who did volunteered
> to write it.
>
>> But mentioning them is a good idea, since
>> people may stumble upon them like you did.
>>
>> - Bert -
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