Re: Plans for ahead

[Tito Mari Francis Escaño]

Based on the flow of the thread, the discussion is basically going around:
1. Usability
2. Themability
3. More applications

For usability, I would like to raise my question: what's with Etoile?
Is it already dead? I think there were many advances made within
Etoile that would be very valuable to the GNUstep system. I think the
usability issue is more around the user perception of the window
manager. If anybody wants to replace it, I suggest the look and feel
of the classic Mac and BeOS.

On themability, I think the look and feel of GNUstep is what makes
GNUstep what it is, hate it or love it. I think the problem is more on
having a desktop environment with more GNUstep-native applications,
including but not limited to web browser, office suite and development
tools.

On having more applications, I think the core and support libraries
should be guaranteed stable and mature APIs. The Etoile-provided
reference applications are awesome and would highlight the power and
flexibility of the core GNUstep that can only be envied by other
desktop environments.


On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:47 PM, James Carthew <jcarthew@gmail.com> wrote:
> Window maker doesn't play well with GNUstep...It only works if you want to
> use GNUstep as a Next desktop environment. When running with Windows
> menustyle or Macintosh menustyle it's completely broken. GNUstep needs a
> GNUstep window manager which will allow you to switch between those menu
> styles in a sane and consistent manner.
>
> On 2 December 2015 at 23:42, Svetlana A. Tkachenko
> <svetlana@members.fsf.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Window maker sucks, it does not play nice with gnome/kde apps, its too
>> > outdated I guess it does not follow the open desktop standards..
>>
>> I do not know about standards, but wmaker has been the nicest window
>> manager I used thus far. I do not want to put effort into changing it
>> just for the sake of singing along with gnome or kde nicely. I wrote a
>> new thread on this list about this question.
>>
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>> Svetlana A. Tkachenko
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