Philipp Kern: Infinote-based Gobby hits Karmic
Gobby 0.5 (or to be more precise 0.4.92) just hit the Karmic Koala. Below you
can see a screenshot of the new version (just click on it to get a large version).
It is sadly not protocol compatible to the old version but it features local
undo and redo! Furthermore it's not yet stable on-the-wire wise. The software
itself is fairly stable but it could be a bit bumpy if the server protocol
version goes out of date.
If you want to try it out on earlier versions, I offer backports in the
Infinote PPA for Intrepid and up. I hope to get to Hardy soon, sadly it
needs some more backports.
There is a public server available on gobby.0x539.de if you want to try
it out (connections are encrypted, but all contents are public and can be
deleted by everybody, wiki-like; so please be considerate and non-destructive).
On local networks Gobby will look for servers through Avahi. That said Gobby
is not yet able to host servers by itself, like the old version did. You have
to install the infinoted server. You can do this on any computer, even on
the local network and take advantage of Avahi. If you want encrypted
connections you need to create certificates but if an unencrypted session is
acceptable you can get an ad-hoc server by invoking infinoted
--security-policy=no-tls without further configuration. It will persist
content across invocations, too.
Thanks to Greg Heynes, there will also be a KDE client for Gobby, called...
Kobby! The first time someone actually uses the fact that the software
uses a library for interoperability. Interesting that it's done now
when the library's C instead of C++ (which obby was written in), with Qt
being C++ anyway. I'm not yet aware of packages but I really hope that
we can release with both.
If you encounter problems, please report them to our Trac (preferred)
or Launchpad.