Re: Proposing gobby?

[Corey Burger <corey burger gmail com>]

On 11/15/05, Chris Ball <cjb mrao cam ac uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not the author of gobby[1], but I'd like to hear thoughts on whether
> gobby should be proposed for inclusion in Gnome 2.14.  Gobby is a
> collaborative text editor using GtkSourceView/GTK 2.6, with external
> dependencies of libgmp, gtkmm and libxml++.  There are two libraries
> that are maintained by the gobby authors used: libobby and libnet6.
>
> Collaborative editing is an application many people don't seem to have
> realised is possible with their computers; I think having it available
> such that two GNOME users can easily start a collaborative session
> together would be massively beneficial.

Gobby is a lot of fun and a great piece of work, but having used this
extensively at UBZ (along with the rest of the people there), we found
some bugs[1] that might need to be addressed before we foist it on the
unsuspecting user.

Personally, what I would like to see in the desktop release is not
gobby but libobby with plugins for abiword, gnumeric, gedit, etc.

Chris, you might also want to speak to the Inkscape people about
Inkboard, which has similar goals but uses Jabber to talk back and
forth.

[1] https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/breezy/+source/gobby/+bugs
Cheers and thanks for the great product,

Corey