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| 2 | This is the distribution of Bonobo, the GNOME component and compound |
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| 3 | document system for the GNU system. |
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| 5 | * What is Bonobo |
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| 7 | Bonobo is a set of language and system independant CORBA interfaces |
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| 8 | for creating reusable components, controls and creating compound |
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| 9 | documents. |
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| 11 | The Bonobo distribution includes a Gtk+ based implementation of the |
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| 12 | Bonobo interfaces, enabling developers to create reusable |
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| 13 | components and applications that can be used to form more complex |
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| 14 | documents. |
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| 16 | If you want to look into a Java implementation of Bonobo, look in |
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| 17 | the GNOME CVS for the `monkeybeans' module (Erdi Gergo is the |
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| 18 | author), you can browse it at: http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai |
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| 20 | * Licensing |
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| 22 | Bonobo libraries are released under the terms of the GNU Lesser |
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| 23 | General Public License (GNU LGPL). While components and programs |
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| 24 | included with this release are licensed under the terms of the GNU |
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| 25 | General Public License (GNU GPL). |
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| 27 | You can find copies of the licenses in the files COPYING.LIB and |
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| 28 | COPYING for the libraries and the code respectively. |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | * What you will need |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | You will need a working GNOME 1.x system with the development tools |
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| 33 | to compile and install Bonobo. |
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| 35 | You also need OAF, the Object Activation Framework. |
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| 37 | * Mailing lists |
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| 39 | gnome-components-list@gnome.org |
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| 41 | To subscribe, send mail to gnome-components-list-request@gnome.org |
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| 42 | and in the body of the message put the word "subscribe". |
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| 44 | Archive of the mailing list is available at: |
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| 46 | http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-components-list |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | * The layout |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | You will find documentation for Bonobo in the "doc" directory. The |
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| 51 | actual implementation of bonobo is in the "bonobo" directory. The |
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| 52 | CORBA interfaces are in the "idl" directory. Sample implementations |
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| 53 | of components and containers are in the "samples" directory. You |
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| 54 | should use these implementations as your reference when you write |
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| 55 | Bonobo code. |
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| 57 | * Bonobos |
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| 59 | The real Bonobos are endangered species. If you want to help |
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| 60 | preserve the Bonobos go to this web site: |
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| 62 | http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwbpf/bpf |
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| 64 | Miguel de Icaza (miguel@gnu.org) |
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| 65 | August, 1999. |
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