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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Google Summer of Code Idea
From:       "Andreas Ramm" <psychobrain () gmx ! net>
Date:       2008-03-24 1:44:41
Message-ID: 20080324014441.142900 () gmx ! net
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> On Friday 21 March 2008, Matt Williams wrote:
> > some people already working on a Qt/KDE obby implementation. Though
> perhaps
> > it was only pure Qt. I don't know since I've never been able to find out
> > any more information, so perhaps it's all hearsay. Does anyone know any
> > more about it?
> 
> i don't know about the qt/gobby effort, but the gobby colab stuff is
> pretty 
> much useless at this point for lack of things such as lag correction and 
> undo/redo. yes, those things could be added to libgobby, i'm sure, but a
> lot 
> of that is fairly non-trivial.

The gobby guys have already identified and addressed many of the shortcomings of \
libgobby and are quite far in writing a successor protocol called infinote. [1] It \
uses the adOPTed algorithm for operation transformation and as such has a lot of \
research behind it. 

> the abicolab stuff is far more complete and interesting, and the main 
> developer is quite interested in working with other projects.

Can you add a bit more to this statement? How is it more complete or more \
interesting?

Andreas

[1] http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/wiki/InfinoteProtocol

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