At press time, the Gnome hackers were putting the
finishing touches on Bonobo. Bonobo is a compound
document architecture in the tradition of Microsoft's
OLE; it allows you to embed charts in spreadsheets, for
example. It will be used pervasively throughout Gnome;
any application will be able to display MIME-typed data
such as plain text, HTML, or images by asking the Gnome
libraries for an appropriate Bonobo component. Look for
Bonobo technology in the next major Gnome release.
