On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:17:46PM +0000, Jono Bacon wrote: > On 11/16/05, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Trent Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bur.st Networking Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
