Re: Why is GNUstep less successful than GTK and Qt??

[Sungjin Chun]

I have somewhat different idea. The main problem is accessibility.
If someone wants to use GNUstep, (I mean environment like GNOME or 
KDE) how he/she can get it currently? Current status of GNUstep is
for developers not ordinary users. Integration between WindowMaker
is not perfect and no total packages like GNOME or KDE. I think we
need more time to make libraries and some basic applications robust,
then create an easy to install package. Then we can make people to
try GNUstep as a computing environment.
Personally current UI design(or NeXT's design) is very good to me, and
from my experience with other people in my company, the beauty of
UI is not important. UI Consistency is more important to them.

Bye.

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:07, Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de wrote: 
> On 12 Jun, Christopher Culver wrote:
> > I asked about this on Gentoo Forums. The responses were along the 
> > lines of "It doesn't matter how easy it is to program if it's so 
> > ugly". If GNUstep had a better look, I'm sure more people would come 
> 
> ?? In my eyes GNUstep is one of the least eyesores around. And I don't
> think it's a valid point anyhow: both gtk and qt were incredible ugly in
> their first incarnations.
> 
> So it's probably because GNUstep just wasn't ready (is it now?) for any
> application, and because objective-c is unknown and nobody is willing to
> learn another language, and so 
> 
> we have no applications to speak of. (could somebody get the lighthouse
> apps out of Sun, _pretty_please_ :-)
> 
> Also, the UI ist strictly non-Windoze, which makes it way better, but
> less accesible to a lot of folks. Look at the windowze-likeness of kde
> and gnome: look at their icon-bursting ui's and other strange stuff. Not
> good, but known to many people.
> 
> > to it. There's also the problem of lack of advertising. GNUstep 
> > should hype itself more to Slashdot and OSNews.
> > 
> > Christopher Culver
> > 
> > On 2003-06-12 07:04:59 +0300 jonathon <jmckitrick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Is it because they are C/C++ based?
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