Bonobo (GNOME)

Bonobo is an obsolete component framework for the GNOME free desktop environment. Bonobo is designed to create reusable software components and compound documents. Through its development history it resembles Microsoft's OLE technology and is GNOME's equivalent of KDE's KParts.

Bonobo was developed as a solution to the problems and requirements of the free software community in the development of complex applications. Bonobo is based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) or its GNOME implementation ORBit. Through Bonobo the functions of one application can be integrated into another: for example, Gnumeric spreadsheet tables can be directly embedded into AbiWord text document by including Gnumeric as Bonobo component.

Available components are:

History

Inspired by Microsoft's OLE, Bonobo was originally developed by Ximian for compound documents. Bonobo was included for the first time in Gnome 1.2 in May 2000. As of GNOME 2.4, Bonobo is officially considered obsolete,[1] and developers are advised to switch to alternatives such as D-Bus[2] or the GIO component of GLib[3] instead. D-Bus replaced Bonobo as part of the Ridley project. Final results should be released in GTK+ 3.0. Bonobo and ORBit libraries were removed from GNOME in version 2.22.

References

  1. ^ GNOME Library Archived 2009-08-07 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on August 31, 2007
  2. ^ "Bonobo and CORBA". developer.gnome.org. Archived from the original on 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  3. ^ "GNOME 2.22 Release Notes". Archived from the original on 2008-06-01. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
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