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: 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.
