Re: the gnustep wreckage. Part 1: windowmaker and user apps

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 19 nov. 04, à 15:44, Enrico Sersale a écrit :

> I want to reply to this point because it seems that many people don't 
> like the actual solution.
>
> There are (and there will be) two main applications, GWorkspace and 
> Desktop.
>
> In the future, Desktop will be integrated in the window manager and 
> this means that it will use X stuff directly, not allowing anymore any 
> kind of unification with GW.
>
> Last week I've made some experiments with WindowMaker and I've got it 
> to work as a GNUstep application (the X events are intercepted by the 
> run loop of the app and then passed to the Window Maker function); 
> after this I've tried to add to WMaker.app part of the sources of 
> Desktop and I've got the Desktop window and the Dock (my dock) on all 
> the WindowMaker workspaces. So, I think that this is the right way to 
> go (using WindowManager or something else).
>
> In this perspective, the existence of all the helper apps is easy 
> understandable:
>
> both the apps needs file operations.
> both the apps needs an Inspector.
> both the apps needs a Finder and will use its File Annotations and 
> Live Search Folders.
> both the apps use fswatcher, thumbnailer, etc...

Yes, but why having multiple graphical applications ?
Wouldn't it be better to use frameworks for that ? and optionally some 
servers (tools) if you really want for things like copy operations ?

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Nicolas Roard
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