Re: AbiWord GOCollab and Macros.

On 9/17/05, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
<msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

[...]

> Thanks for your offer of help! I've put some comments into the code.
> You should also read the links provided by Mathew and the following much
> more technical description of what we're attempting.

Thanks. Have to learn some more about strux types though it seems ...

> Another use for the AbiCollab project would be as a macro recorder. A
> users actions on a document can be recorded to a file for replay later.
> This would be great for bug reporting. A user could simply open a file,
> start recording their actions and stop upon hitting the bug.
>
> They could then attach the record of their actions to their bugzilla entry.
>
> Developers could simply replay the record the users actions and hey presto
> bug is reproduced.
>
> Of course macro recording is also very useful for repeatative document
> actions and we could implements it as a command line option.

That certainly sounds interesting.
For testing gtk-based software there seems to be a project already[1].
Not sure how it relates to the stuff you proposed though.
Are we targetting gtk/gnome or all abiword supported platforms with
the collaboration feature?

As regards transport of the collaboration messages it seems like
google's summer of code has supported an interesting related project:
gShrooms[2] is an extension of gnome's rhythmbox music player that
streams music over p2p networks by using gaim. I think we could lift
most of that code for sending the collaboration messages.
What do you think?

[1] http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.php/Main_Page
[2] http://raphael.slinckx.net/gshrooms.php

Cheers,
Rob
Received on Mon Sep 19 08:31:18 2005