Common Thread Editor

This is the main project page for ACM SIGSoft's Collaborative Text Editor project, an open-source undergraduate research project.

About this Project

This Week's Announcements

March 28, 2006

Tack, Alex, Brett, and Kevin discussed what needs to be implemented for the Computing Habitat edition of CTE. Below are features that need to be done. A bold task indicates a high priority task.

Work Room:

  • Short Term Goals:
    • List all docs
    • No security
  • Middle Term:
    • Projects/Directories of Projects
    • Projects are listings of documents
    • Security on projects
  • Long Term:
    • Bluestem or AD authentication

Whiteboard:

  • Sample whiteboard is available from Eclipse via "Other Downloads"
  • Top Priority
  • Snapshots of documents as a replacement for transparent overlays

UI:

  • User list should work

Features:

  • Icons (Including Read/Write in user list)
    • Read/Write icons disabled for non-publishers
  • Track Lines
  • Follow mode (including scrolling)

Awareness Issues:

  • Other cursors
  • Audible click when others type

Preferences:

  • Make tasks
  • Avatar

VIM Shortcuts (Low Priority)

General:

  • Resource Bundling
    • Toolbar images
    • Preference storage(?)
  • Binaries
    • Mac OS X (Because Tack uses it)
    • Windows (Because people with souls use it)
    • Jars for other platforms (Because Linux people like doing things the hard way)

Past Meeting Notes