CollabEdit lives!
Well, not exactly, but close enough.
I found Gobby project on GnomeFiles today and it seams that someone actualy went ahead and wrote a program that Ivan and I presented an implementation idea for to Google Summer of Code.
Gobby seams to be working in very similar way, but still lacks some of the features I find very usefull and would like to have in this kind of editor (SCM sistem integration, …). On the other hand, it has quite an impressive list of features and most of them were actualy in our implementation specification:
* Realtime Collaboration
* Each user has its own colour (changeable) to be identified by others
* IRC-like Chat for communicating with your partners while coding
* Sidebar with all the others having joined the session
* Syntax highlighting for most programming languages
* Session password protection
* Multiple documents in one Session
* Drag’n'drop of documents into gobby
* Document synchronisation on request
* Zeroconf support
* Unicode support
* Cross-platform: It runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other flavours of UN*X
* Gobby is free software and licenced under the GPL 2
And a it looks nice too :)
Really, congrats to the developers!
Maybe I’ll join the project and contribute the features I find lacking - If I’ll have some spare time…