Re: Lotus Improv

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

we always somehow dream to get the lightouse applications. Hopelessly 
outdated, they still look so nice in the screenshots that I would love 
to run it on GNUstep and see how it looks!

GNUstep is ... missing on the Office side.

Robert Slover wrote:
> There is a project named FlexiSheet that attempts something similar, 
> but I know too little about it.

Well, FlexiSheet tried to be a Quantrix implementation for Mac. I don't 
know the full history, I guess the author intended it to make a 
commercial app out of it reviving the concept. But hen his career 
changed and he opensourced it. Unfinished and the sources were in the 
middle of some sort of rewrite.
We at GAP contacted the author years ago and got the permission to 
include them in GAP. I did minor "fixes" to the code and it now appears 
to start on Mac 10.4/PPC
It even runs on GNUstep with minimal tweaking... right out with NIB 
compatibility.

It would be nice to complete it and improve also the GS working 
(although it should just be the looks: the code should work or it is a 
bug in either bad code or GS itself, since it is vintage 10.3/10.4 code).

To sum up: something is there, but it needs bug fixing and feature 
completion. As a lot of stuff in GNUstep.

Riccardo