Re: Proposing gobby?

[Jono Bacon <jonobacon gmail com>]

On 11/16/05, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 11:54 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> >   I subscribe the good opinion about Gobby, generally, but the security
> > of its network protocol leaves a lot to be desired.
>
> Agreed: whilst I'd like to use Gobby, the fact that the data is sent in
> plain-text isn't good.  Some way of authenticating the servers/peers are
> who they say they are (think ssh host key fingerprints), and encrypted
> transport streams would be required before I'd use it for work.

It seems to me that a collaborative editing feature in GNOME would be
a really killer feature, but it should really happen in the
applications that we all know and love. I would much prefer to use a
GEdit, Abiword and ultimately OOo plugin to do this. What Gobby could
offer is a library to handle this and a standard UI for establishing
and maintaining connections. This would sacrifice Gobby for inclusion,
but open the possibility for a general GNOME feature - Live
Collaboration.

I think this could be a really, really killer feature for GNOME. What
is the likelyhood of the Gobby developers buying into this?

  Jono