Tutorials/Chatting with the Chat Activity
- Under Construction --Satellit 09:20, 15 December 2011 (EST)
How to Use Chat
- Chat is an example of a shared activity which allows Collaboration over a Jabber Connection
- There are many different shared activities in the Sugar-Desktop
- It is one of Sugar's Strongest features.
Boot Sugar
- The Home (or f3) Screen appears
- The Chat icon
is on right side of the Spiral of Activities
Start Chat
- Click on the Chat Icon
Send Chat Message
- Type your message in the bottom field of Chat
- Hit return
- Here Testing Chat is the message
- Note that the User's Avitar name is displayed on the line before the message
- In this case Tris5-sugar: Testing Chat
- This becomes useful if several other users join the chat
Use emoticons in your chat
Click on the "happy face" icon on the top bar
- A drop Down menu appears and you can click on any of the emoticons on it
- hit return
- the emoticon is added to your message
- Click on the 0 with a dot inside icon on the top bar
- Click
in the drop down menu
- You are now collaborating in a shared session
- Your Shared Chat will show an Icon on the f1 Neighborhood.
- Other users can join your chat from there.
- This is an example of joining another users shared chat
- Click in the frame or Hit F1 key and you switch to the Neighborhood View.
- Move mouse pointer to center of window to retract frame.
- Join Chat
- Hover the mouse cursor over the Chat icon
- Click Join on the drop down menu
- You are Chatting (Collaborating) in the other user's Chat
- You can see your messages (yellow) and Other user's messages in (blue)
- Other's user's color will match the colors of their XO Avitar
- It will not always be blue.
Stop Chat
- click on the white octagon icon with a black square in it, in the right top bar
- "Stop Ctrl+Q" appears in drop down menu
- Click on it
- You return to the Home (or f3) screen