Bug 149498

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...)