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Gobby project is a collaborative text editor. Gobby is a free collaborative editor base

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
OS: Linux
File size: 315K
Developer: Alexander Bubeck      
Price: $0.00
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Gobby 0.4.1 is word processors software developed by Alexander Bubeck.
Gobby project is a collaborative text editor.

Gobby is a free collaborative editor based on libobby, a library which provides synced document buffers.

It supports multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

It uses GTK+ 2.6 as its windowing toolkit and thus integrates nicely into the GNOME desktop environment.

Here are some key features of "Gobby":

  • 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

    Requirements:
  • GTK+ version 2.6.x
  • net6 1.2.0
  • obby 0.3.0
  • Gtkmm 2.6
  • gtksourceview-1.0

    What's New in This Release:
    Functionality enhencements:
  • basic IPv6-support through new net6 and obby
  • encryption support through GNUTLS

    Usability enhancements:
  • Chat window closeable
  • font types and sizes could be set in preferences
  • documents switchable using Ctrl-Alt-Page-Down and Ctrl-Alt-Page-Up
  • host and join dialogs are respawned on failure
  • application highlighting on new chat messages
  • filenames could be passed on the command-line to be opened in the current or a new session
  • session join possible through command-line option
  • user-modified colour palettes are now preserved
    Gobby 0.4.1 supports english interface languages and works with Linux.

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