Bug 149498 - collaborative editing in KDE text editors
Summary: collaborative editing in KDE text editors
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 79721
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Reported: 2007-09-02 23:04 UTC by Stefan Majewsky
Modified: 2012-10-29 06:07 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Majewsky 2007-09-02 23:04:11 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

We are using LaTeX for type setting of lecture notes in real-time. Our favorite LaTeX editor is Kile from the Extragear, but Kile does not have collaborative editing functionality. We are now using the program Gobby which is a GTK frontend for the library Obby, but it would be much more pleasant for workflow to have a collaborative editing solution integrated with KDE. Because KDE text editor applications (KWrite, Kate, and also Kile) shares the text editor component it should be more efficient to implement collaborative editing in this component (perhaps as a plugin if there are such capabilities?).

I suppose an infrastructure like this: There may be a program, say for example KCollab. KCollab manages collaborative editing sessions and opened files. The files are shared via KIO. In your favorite text editor, you open, for instance, "collab://Session 1/My File". The enhancement in the text editor component would highlight inserted text as usual and get the required meta information from KCollab via DBus.

1. Is this possible? (I imagine a problem in how the text editor component gets changes, perhaps it could register a callback function at KCollab via DBus?)
2. Is there anyone to implement it? (I don't expect it to be a 4.1 thing, but it's definitely worth thinking from my point of view.)

Perhaps, there could be code shared with the current SoC project for collaborative editing in KOffice.

Thank you for your time. (I am willing to help if I can, but my C++ is very rusty and I've never really used Qt nor KDElibs...)
Comment 1 Stefan Majewsky 2008-03-15 19:56:57 UTC
*reviewing the bug thread*

The last sentence is not true anymore. Call me if you are interested in working on this, perhaps I can help you.
Comment 2 Nicolas Dumoulin 2008-04-30 09:55:06 UTC
For your information, some other related wishes :
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79721
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145011
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2012-10-29 06:07:37 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 79721 ***