7. Re: Problem : openapp: command not found (J. Jordan) Thanks
the following command works for me: cd /usr/local/GNUstep/Apps/FSViewer/ ./FSViewer It starts! Very nice... thanks a lot thomas 2010/2/16 <[email protected]> > Send apps-gnustep mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-gnustep > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of apps-gnustep digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: State of the 'Step (Dirk Olmes) > 2. Re: State of the 'Step (Gregory Casamento) > 3. Re: State of the 'Step (J. Jordan) > 4. Re: State of the 'Step (J. Jordan) > 5. Problem : openapp: command not found (Thomas Wawra) > 6. Re: State of the 'Step (J. Jordan) > 7. Re: Problem : openapp: command not found (J. Jordan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:34:29 +0100 > From: Dirk Olmes <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: State of the 'Step > To: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > Zipper, wish it did not depend on Renissance, put an * in for the > > filename to gunzip to a directory. > > Would you care to elaborate? While chances are low that I'll get rid of > the dependency on Renaissance, I'd like to hear about any bugs in Zipper. > > -dirk > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:26:33 -0500 > From: Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: State of the 'Step > To: "Ronald C.F. Antony" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], Fred Kiefer <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Ronald, > > You're preaching to the choir here on this one. Any ideas how to make > that happen? I would love to get up to date packages everywhere. > > Thanks, GC > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Even more to the point: unless there are simple GnuStep meta-packages for > the major BSD and Linux distributions that are reasonable > "click-install-run" easy, most of the effort going into GNUStep is wasted, > because except for a few nostalgic exNeXT users and a few developers, nobody > is going to use it. > > I didn't have time to play with GNUStep for ages, but I keep following > the development from a distance, but think about it for a moment: if KDE or > something like it would require that level of involvement just to get going, > do you think it would have the sort of adoption it has now? > > > > Ronald > > > > On 14 Feb 2010, at 16:34, Fred Kiefer wrote: > > > >> Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a > >> developer I am most interested in what didn't work :-( > >> Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from SVN? > >> (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then this > >> was a very old version of GNUstep) > >> > >> And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system for > >> GNUstep that didn't make it upstream? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > > > > > -- > Gregory Casamento > yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa > (240)274-9630 (Cell) > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:39:35 +0100 > From: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: State of the 'Step > To: Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Message-ID: <7f853c69fec70046d69e635b7fffc...@dv3-2150us> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" > > Fred, > > Well to be honest nothing worked using the SVN version of > base/back/make/gui, GNUMail, GWorkspace, Terminal all immediatly > segfaulted on launch. I don't really see that as an issue, SVN is > going to be broken from time to time and watching the IRC channel > there is enough action going on that breakage is going to occur. > > That being said, GNUstep has been in development for 15 years, are the > current efforts primarily aimed at making it a clone of OSX? I f the > concept is to allow OSX applications to be easily ported to GNUstep > then that is a good plan but if the intent is to develop for OSX > without needing a MAC then I think it is doomed to fail. For me it is > all about the applications. I really like the look and feel of > GNUstep, the concepts of services, bundles and frameworks really make > sense and they are NOT well implemented on the MAC. The time is > perfect for a third FLOSS desktop, KDE has gone off on the Windows > tangent and is gaining many new users but it is loseing power-users in > droves, Gnome is Gnome and will always be Gnome, you either love it or > hate it, I hate it. Verticle menus and a verticle dock courtesy of > Windowmaker make more sense now than ever before considering the > almost universal move to wide-screen monitors. I am not a purist, I > am not saying we should be locked to the OpenStep API of 15 years ago, > there has been a lot of progress in the computer world, wifi, > bluetooth, ACPI, none of tose things were around back then. I like > the square-gray look but recognize that others do not so making things > skinnable makes sense, just allow me to keep the look I like. > > Saying that GNUstep is nothing but a development environment is a bit > of a cop-out, like taking 15 years of development. hundreds of > thousands of hours of work and equating it to Visual-Basic. It is > like saying, that you build hammers that can only be used to build > more hammers, never any houses. > > Please don't think that I don't appreciate the efforts of the > base/back/gui developers, without them nothing works. > > Over the last couple weeks reading the mailing lists including > archives I have gotten the impression that most GNUstep developers > don't really use GNUstep, they don't use Project Center for > development, they don't use GNUMail, they do use Gorm which explains > its comparative advanced state but of course Gorm is not needed for > base/back/make development. > > Users need applications, applications require application developers, > application developers need a stable API, 15 years is a long time. > > -j > > On 2010-02-14 22:34:15 +0100 Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a > > developer I am most interested in what didn't work :-( > > Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from SVN? > > (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then > > this > > was a very old version of GNUstep) > > > > And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system for > > GNUstep that didn't make it upstream? > > > > Fred > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:03:34 +0100 > From: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: State of the 'Step > To: Dirk Olmes <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Message-ID: <88b0191cc22592118cd8c79825e08...@dv3-2150us> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" > > Dirk, > > I did not find any real bugs in Zipper, the one issue I had was that > when you attempt to decompress a tarball with multiple files Zipper > expects you to give it a filename instead of just pointing at the > directory to put the files in. I discovered through trial and error > that if I put an asterisk in for the filename then the OK button will > become enabled. Could probably have fixed that issue myself if Zipper > had a Gorm editable GUI. > > Zipper works well and is important enough to me that I installed > Renaissance just so I can use it. > > -j > > On 2010-02-15 14:34:29 +0100 Dirk Olmes <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Zipper, wish it did not depend on Renissance, put an * in for the > >> filename to gunzip to a directory. > > > > Would you care to elaborate? While chances are low that I'll get rid > > of > > the dependency on Renaissance, I'd like to hear about any bugs in > > Zipper. > > > > -dirk > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:09:55 +0100 > From: Thomas Wawra <[email protected]> > Subject: Problem : openapp: command not found > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > I tried to run an app with the command: openapp in windowmaker on a freebsd > 8.0 machine. > > Then : openapp: command not found appeared. > > > Does anyone knows how to solve the problem? > > > Thx > Thomas > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/apps-gnustep/attachments/20100216/70de0dfe/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:29:27 +0100 > From: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: State of the 'Step > To: Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], Fred Kiefer <[email protected]>, > [email protected], "Ronald C.F. Antony" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <6d666f4b82ca23fdba12c57fa1ba7...@dv3-2150us> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" > > Gregory, Ronald, et al, > > The Debian folks actually do a pretty good job of maintaining an > easily installed workable group of GNUstep applications. I don't use > them because I want to modify some of the apps with my own icons and > adjust the UI using Gorm, also want to be able to install updated apps > easily. Debian changes the installation path so mixing and matching > is a hassle. > > I think it would be great if we could come up with a system to > identify applications that are known to build and run on a certain > base/back/gui. Perhaps it could be tied to the version of Startup so > that a few weeks before a new version of Startup is released it goes > into to feature lock giving Application developers a chance to certify > their apps against that version of Startup. Perhaps a numbering > scheme like "GWorkspace-0.8.7-cert-0.22.0.tgz" could indicate that > this is the 0.8.7 version of GWorkspace and THIS tarball has been > demonstrated to compile and run on the default installation of > Startup-0.22.0. It would of course be best if more than one person > tests the app. Then Etoile, Debian, BSD, etc. could use those > versions as a starting point to mod for their distributions, of course > passing any bugs and patches upstream. Maybe GAP could host the > certified version of the applications if they were willing. > > -j > > > > On 2010-02-15 22:26:33 +0100 Gregory Casamento > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ronald, > > > > You're preaching to the choir here on this one. Any ideas how to make > > that happen? I would love to get up to date packages everywhere. > > > > Thanks, GC > > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Even more to the point: unless there are simple GnuStep > >> meta-packages for > >> the major BSD and Linux distributions that are reasonable > >> "click-install-run" easy, most of the effort going into GNUStep is > >> wasted, > >> because except for a few nostalgic exNeXT users and a few > >> developers, > >> nobody is going to use it. > >> I didn't have time to play with GNUStep for ages, but I keep > >> following the > >> development from a distance, but think about it for a moment: if KDE > >> or > >> something like it would require that level of involvement just to > >> get > >> going, do you think it would have the sort of adoption it has now? > >> > >> Ronald > >> > >> On 14 Feb 2010, at 16:34, Fred Kiefer wrote: > >> > >>> Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a > >>> developer I am most interested in what didn't work :-( > >>> Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from > >>> SVN? > >>> (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then > >>> this > >>> was a very old version of GNUstep) > >>> > >>> And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system for > >>> GNUstep that didn't make it upstream? > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:36:39 +0100 > From: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Problem : openapp: command not found > To: Thomas Wawra <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <451e59d06d3e12b9015f8fa4cf595...@dv3-2150us> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" > > You probably do not need to use the openapp command. I am not a BSD > user but on Linux you can use the name of the application (they have > been installing symlinks for a while). to run GWorkspace just type > GWorkspace, capitalization is important and many GNUstep apps use > CamelCase. You may also try "open GWorkspace" and if all else fails > go inside the directory GWorkspace.app and use ./GWorkspace or > whatever the executable is. > > -j > > > On 2010-02-16 11:09:55 +0100 Thomas Wawra <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I tried to run an app with the command: openapp in windowmaker on a > > freebsd > > 8.0 machine. > > > > Then : openapp: command not found appeared. > > > > > > Does anyone knows how to solve the problem? > > > > > > Thx > > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > > apps-gnustep mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-gnustep > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > apps-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-gnustep > > > End of apps-gnustep Digest, Vol 47, Issue 3 > ******************************************* >
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