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- libbonobo is the non-GUI part of the bonobo component infrastructure,
- it is most useful for creating aggregate interfaces & doing IPC
- easily. It also contains a rather badly designed & implemented
- per-system activation system. This needs re-writing & simplifying to
- be per-display.
-
- Take a look at samples/echo/.
-
- 2005-02-02 Michael Meeks.
-
-
- This is the distribution of Bonobo, the GNOME component and compound
- document system for the GNU system.
-
- * What is Bonobo
-
- Bonobo is a set of language and system independant CORBA interfaces
- for creating reusable components, controls and creating compound
- documents.
-
- The Bonobo distribution includes a Gtk+ based implementation of the
- Bonobo interfaces, enabling developers to create reusable
- components and applications that can be used to form more complex
- documents.
-
- If you want to look into a Java implementation of Bonobo, look in
- the GNOME CVS for the `monkeybeans' module (Erdi Gergo is the
- author), you can browse it at: http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai
-
- * Licensing
-
- Bonobo libraries are released under the terms of the GNU Lesser
- General Public License (GNU LGPL). While components and programs
- included with this release are licensed under the terms of the GNU
- General Public License (GNU GPL).
-
- You can find copies of the licenses in the files COPYING.LIB and
- COPYING for the libraries and the code respectively.
-
- * Bug reports
-
- File any bug reports at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
-
- * What you will need
-
- You will need a working GNOME 2.x system with the development tools
- to compile and install Bonobo.
-
- * Mailing lists
-
- gnome-components-list@gnome.org
-
- To subscribe, send mail to gnome-components-list-request@gnome.org
- and in the body of the message put the word "subscribe".
-
- Archive of the mailing list is available at:
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- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-components-list
-
- * The layout
-
- You will find documentation for Bonobo in the "doc" directory. The
- actual implementation of bonobo is in the "bonobo" directory. The
- CORBA interfaces are in the "idl" directory. Sample implementations
- of components and containers are in the "samples" directory. You
- should use these implementations as your reference when you write
- Bonobo code.
-
- * Bonobos
-
- The real Bonobos are endangered species. If you want to help
- preserve the Bonobos go to this web site:
-
- http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwbpf/bpf
-
- Miguel de Icaza (miguel@gnu.org)
- August, 1999.
-