Re: gnustep question

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Roelof Wobben wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to try gnustep instead of the big WM as KDE and Gnome.
> But I wonder if I can use gnustep alone or must I use a wm like etoille to see 
> if this is something for me.
You definitely need a window manager. WindowMaker is suggested, but 
nothing prevents you to run GNUstep applications inside any KDE or Gnome.

At its core, GNUstep is only a bunch of frameworks for OpenStep. The 
GNUstep project also supplies some developer tools (ProjectCenter, Gorm, 
EasyDiff...) and some essential user tools (GWorkspace, 
SystemPreferences, examples) which a are absolutely optional and can be 
replaced at your will.

You may want to look at our application list on the Wiki and have a look 
at the two projects wanting to supply GNUstep with the rest to make a 
Destkop environment: étoilé (etoileos.com) and the GNUstep Application 
Project (GAP: gap.nongnu.org).

Nothing prevents you to do some mix&match.

I suggest you to look at the various applications, read around on our 
website and try to make yourself an idea of what is available, since 
some applications are stand-alone projects 
(http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Category:Applications).


Riccardo