Re: project goal Re: Release schedule

[Yen-Ju Chen]

So I think it is more appropriate to say
that GNUstep is ready to support a desktop environment,
but is not a desktop environment yet. :P
Lack of developers is the biggest problem.

Yen-Ju

> From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud@valdyas.org>
> To: "Yen-Ju Chen" <yjchenx@hotmail.com>, discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: project goal Re: Release schedule
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:57:15 +0200
>
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> On Thursday 17 April 2003 14:58, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
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> >   Again, there is no GNUstep desktop environment,
>
> Yes, so I read. But still, if a toolkit demands daemons to run, pretty much
> presupposes certain capabilities in the window manager (don't run a GNUstep
> under kwin, for instance), and if the whole infrastructure seems inspired 
> by
> a classic desktop environment, I feel that it seems to as close to one as
> makes no difference. Without that environment, GNUstep applications are so
> much less useful. With that environment, you get a very fine user 
> experience.
> Or, currently, a hint of what that experience could be. I'd really like to
> have that experience.
>
> A mere toolkit is, generally speaking, a lot more independent from the
> environment it's running in. I mean, you don't miss out on functionality if
> you run a sole motif app in KDE, or a sole Qt app in Gnome. But having that
> dictionary app about makes GNUmail more useful, and so on.
>
> - --
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