bonobo support in Abiword

[Justin Bradford <justin ukans edu>]

I posted this to the gnome-workshop list, but got no response, so I
thought I'd try here:

Abiword will eventually hit 1.0 (with, roughly, headers/footers and bugs
left), and I'd like to see embeddable components show up in the 1.1
developtment tree.

However, Abiword is a cross-platform application, so it needs a
cross-component architecture. Thus, we need to make an oo component
interface which can describe Bonobo, OLE, and others. If, for instance,
everyone thinks it's possible to wrap OLE and Openparts with a Bonobo
interface, then that would work (after slight Abi-ification).

This little project would also have the interesting side-effect of
creating a potential common ground between KDE and GNOME component models
(assuming both Bonobo and Openparts back-ends were written).

So, anyway, I thought I'd solicit some ideas from people on this list.

Also, and I realize this isn't the ideal list, but does anyone know of the
(or a) Bonobo equivalent on MacOS and BeOS?

Justin