Kollaborative Editing in (K)Ubuntu

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Tuesday, November 24. 2009

Kollaborative Editing in (K)Ubuntu

In the (somewhat) recent release of Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10), Kobby Beta 3 is available to all users via apt (Horray!).  For those who do not know about Kobby, it is a collaborative editor built using libinfinity, allowing it to be protocol compatible with the GTK based Gobby editor.


For those who do know about Kobby you may have noticed the lack of development progress in the past couple months.  This is a result of my college workload being above normal for the past semester.  With the end of year approaching and a new semester I would really like to try and give collaborative editing the push into the public spotlight I think it needs.  A 1.0 release of the editor would help this greatly, but before this can happen the project is in need of some brave crash-testers.  Beta releases of Koby have been available for several months, but little more than a handful of bugs have been found since then.  This means there must be a whole lot of bugs still waiting to be found so please - break Kobby and tell us how you did it!  Hopefully KDE land can fill the bug queue enough to keep me busy over the new year holidays coming up.


If you're looking to get up and running quickly, I have created a public server you can use at infinote.greghaynes.net.

Posted by Gregory Haynes in All, Code, KDE, Kobby, Libinfinitymm, Libqinfinity, Qt at 19:53 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Interestingly enough, we just set up a testing infinoted server on KDE infrastructure to test the possibility of using Kobby for KDE promo needs instead of the proprietary web apps we're currently using (hello, google docs!)

the biggest thing we're facing right now is user control, both in kobby (where i can't see who's editting with me, for instance) and (much more importantly) in infinoted where user management/control seems pretty non-existent?

great to hear kobby is getting some fresh hands, however. and it would be GREAT if collaborative editing could make it into other places such as katepart (imagine! plasmate with collaborative editting! woo!).

looking forward to what you get up to with kobby! :-)
#1 Aaron Seigo on 2009-11-24 21:42 (Reply)
I just added a ticket to keep user access/control on the to do list. In the devel branch you should be able to see who is currently joined to a document, this just wasnt enabled in Beta 3.

I pulled as much code as possible into a supporting library (libqinfinity) when making the editor, so integrating infinote into a katepart should be very doable.

Dont hesitate to ping on kobby@googlegroups.com with any info on how the testing is going - its always helpful!
#1.1 Gregory Haynes (Homepage) on 2009-11-24 23:44 (Reply)
Access control is planned for the 0.5 cycle of libinfinity. I hope to get 0.4 out of the door still this year and then get hands on this.
#1.2 Armin Burgmeier (Homepage) on 2009-12-04 18:21 (Reply)
Awesome! As Aaron just said we've been discussing trying to help test this application on the promo list. You've got my email from the comment here. Please drop me a line so we can discuss :-)
#2 Justin Kirby (Homepage) on 2009-11-24 22:01 (Reply)
Does it work on other distributions besides (K)Ubuntu, or is it a special development to enhance Mark's distribution's appeal?
#3 Will Stephenson on 2009-11-25 08:34 (Reply)
OpenSUSE packages are also available:

http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE:11.2&p=1&q=kobby
#3.1 Stefan (Homepage) on 2009-11-25 09:09 (Reply)
There is also arch packages available in the AUR
#3.2 Gregory Haynes (Homepage) on 2009-11-25 11:07 (Reply)

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