Re: Proposing gobby?

[Philipp Kern <phil philkern de>]

On Nov 15, 2005, at 19:21, Corey Burger wrote:
> 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.

You should have reported them the usual way as it's mentioned in the  
release announcements. Most of those problems are already addressed  
in the upcoming release (this conversations steals me the time to  
finish it ;).

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

Well, the foundation is there, although written in C++. Everything  
which needs shared buffers could possibly use it. We just need  
serious C wrappers... |:

> 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.

There was also a collaborative editor project for Summer of Code in  
Gaim. It just didn't get very far (and didn't use obby anyway). It  
might work with Jabber, but with IMs like ICQ you'll get into trouble  
with rate limiting (like the guys who wrote a JEdit plugin for use  
over IRC)...

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
0x539 dev group