> I don't know of a way on Linux or OSX to embed a word processor to work on documents but never show the user KDE has KParts and GNOME has Bonobo. The latter

> I don't know of a way on Linux or OSX to embed a word processor to work on documents but never show the user KDE has KParts and GNOME has Bonobo. The latter is apparently deprecated, but it used to be used by the desktop panel for embedding widgets running in separate processes.