Gnustep tied to metacity

[DANIEL hoggan]

I understand that you can't launch Gnustep as if you are launching another 
application, however I wondered about providing something along these lines 
and just wanted to know what you thought.

By tying in Gnustep to metacity I get an applet in the panel of my gnome 
desktop, this applet will not actually launch Gnustep but will use it as the 
framework, ie If i click on this applet then Gnustep becomes my Enviroment, 
it will use the technologies that are available for the host Desktop, but 
will actually provide it's own set of Apps in a virtual, collapsable, 
enviroment.  I am thinking of something like Athene for windows, I don't 
know if you Know what I mean, but it is the desktop experience of the 
Rocklyte systems Athenyx OS, that they packaged for Windows and Linux,  But 
it's the Windows version that actually launches itself in the way I'd like 
to do for Gnustep.

To clarify, I do not intend to Launch Gnustep as an application, but 
clicking on the Gnustep applet in the panel, will launch a virtual 
enviroment, utilising the desktops technologies ie metacity for window 
management, and launching it's own applications within this virtual 
enviroment.  Gnustep would be providing the framework for this to work, but 
would be tied to the desktops existing technologies.

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