Re: Proposing gobby?

[Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:17:46PM +0000, Jono Bacon wrote:
> 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 believe 'libobby' with 'gobby' uses is the library you are looking
for.

Trent

> 
> I think this could be a really, really killer feature for GNOME. What
> is the likelyhood of the Gobby developers buying into this?
> 
>   Jono
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>
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