Posted by
Bert Freudenberg on
Sep 20, 2012; 4:42pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Etoys-networking-was-Re-Additions-to-Etoys-Reference-Manual-tp4648208p4648211.html
On 2012-09-20, at 18:27, Edward Mokurai Cherlin <
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> On Thu, September 20, 2012 7:56 am, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>> On 2012-09-19, at 19:24, karl ramberg <
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>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin
>>> <
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>>>
>>>> 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.
> 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. But mentioning them is a good idea, since people may stumble upon them like you did.
- Bert -
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