Re: project goal Re: Release schedule

[Willem Rein Oudshoorn]

Helge Hess <helge.hess@skyrix.com> writes:

> The important and most difficult question is what those (killer)
> programs are ;-)
> 
> Mozilla works fine for me as a mailer and XEmacs as an editor. If I
> would have need for a "real" IDE, I think Eclipse would be the way to
> go, we have GIMP for painting and Evolution for Groupware, OpenOffice
> as the word processor.
> Little left :-( Maybe an Access replacement.
>
> So what are X11 users missing ? Eg I would suggest an OmniGraffle
> clone. That's something I really miss on X11.

Yes, I was thinking about Diagram as well (I think OmniGraffle is
the successor of Diagram).  
Another program that I miss, is a good project planning tool.

I have tried two or three times to use Microsoft Project and
the result was that I realized that there people on this world
that have a brain so different from mine that I am not sure
that we will be able to communicate.

But it should be possible to have a nice project planning
tool.   Admittingly I have never looked very hard so perhaps
it already exists.

>From the application wishlist on the http://wiki.gnustep.org
I only could see two potential applications:

- a vector drawing program
- a DTP application.

However both of these are a massive undertaking.
 
> Maybe that's a way too, build simple applications, but a lot of them
> and in *high quality* (focus on quality instead of features like the
> other desktops often do). Eg Addressbook.app, iPhoto, iTunes, Mail on
> MacOSX are just fine, even though they don't have a lot of
> functionality.

The problem I see with this is that it requires a massive effort in
testing fixing testing fixing and a user base to fine tune the
application before it becomes a "killer" platform.


Well, take this all with a big grain of salt because I am
not well informed on the software that is freely available on X11.

But it is nice to think about work that I am not going to do :-)


Wim Oudshoorn.