Next Gedit release will have a plugin for Collaborative Editing

We have already talked about a web-based collaborative editing tool today, Etherpad. So, after that I started looking for some native linux applications which do the same thing and came across Gobby and a new collaboration plugin for Gedit. We can talk about Gobby sometime later, I am more interested to tell you about this new plugin in Gedit .

This plugin is a project by Jesse van den Kieboom, who announced it on 14th feb this year. In a comment on his other post he said that there are plans to ship it with the next stable release of Gedit. And since Gedit is a default Gnome application, we will be having a default collaborative tool. And I think its fair to guess that this will be one of the major changes in Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat.

Here is a small demo of this plugin.