>  Do you have any reference of someone else getting this working
>  with gnome?

No.  I've found others asking the same question, but no one who has been
successful.

> Also, at this point i would ask how are your code-diving skills.

I code in C++ regularly using a combination of vim and gedit.  I've used
cscope to find particular things before.  And I'm familiar with most of
the relevant unix tools such as find/grep/sed etc., but I'm not sure
exactly what you're asking...

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