Gobby growls
After i got Gobby compiled and working some weeks ago, today Bubi and i played around with it and we were really thrilled how seamless it works. He had the unique IP-address to host the session and i just entered his IP, the port, my username and my text color. After that we wrote within the same document and could differentiate what is written by whom. Now we should be able to collaborately write protocols at the meetings of the local anti-war group.
It works pretty much just like SubEthaEdit, yet it is available on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, which makes it far more usable, of course. I have just sent the second eMail to the Codingmonkeys asking what their plans are in regard to Gobby. I would be really pleased if they would sit down together to make SubEthaEdit and Gobby talk to each other. The eMails remained unanswered, yet, i am sure this idea is well on their radar. While real-time, collaborative editing is still in the beginning, it will become big. But the more the developers are cooking their own soups, the less it will prosper.
For the time being, Gobby seems to be the way to do it. On the Mac it is available via DarwinPorts. It will take some hours, but it is worth it.
January 18th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
You contacted the wrong people probably, I never got something from you. And no, it is very unlikely that SubEthaEdit and Gobby will ever talk to eachother. The first is proprietary software we cannot look into and the second uses another protocol layer as a base. SubEthaEdit’s protocol specifications were never released, that’s the ultimate reason why we had to create our own protocol.
Microsoft is pushing collaborative editing into its office suite, and if others follow, Gobby might soon get obsolete. (Well, they could integrate obby, there was actually a reason we made the collaborative editing part a library, but I have yet to see such an effort.)