Hi,
On 31/07/2017 20:01, Steven R. Baker wrote:
My computing needs are simple: I need a mail client, a calendar, an
address book, a web browser, and emacs. I need a few other things, but
I'll make those myself. The basics are listed here. GNUstep already
has excellent options for each of those categories, except a web
browser. But here's the funny thing: none of the other environments
have a web browser choice that's a compelling choice over Firefox anyhow.
Exactly, at the end you have "something" + Firefox anyway. Sadly firefox
is moving to a quite ugly UI without menus, preferences inside panes..
so it is "alien" everywhere. Quite different e.g. from SeaMonkey which
as a much more classic and enjoyable interface.
For the rest, GS apps on my ThinkPad(s) too.
There are a few necessities that are missing before I can claim
"complete desktop experience", and a lot of these things were
mentioned in the LiveCD comments thread. The first thing I noticed
when I set up my ThinkPad with WindowMaker + GNUstep is that the media
keys don't work. It's an easy fix, and I'll do that.
Some of those Keys are actually not GS, but go through X11 directly, right?
What kind of keyboard layout do you have on your TP?
We need a few more preferences panes for configuring PulseAudio
input/output options, a small app for talking to NetworkManager for
configuring wifi, etc. After that, it's a matter of shipping a sane
"default configuration", much like Betrand describes. There are some
other things that David mentioned in a few mails, but it mostly boils
down to "make sure things implement the freedesktop specifications."
Yep, we all need work there, sadly, a lot of this is highly unportable
between OSs and also needs privilege escalation stuff... so I never
started working on that.
2) a personal finance application for budgeting, and a GTD
application, both with the goal of also being available on Windows and
Mac from the same codebase. I'd like for these applications to be
examples of how you can do cross platform really well using GNUstep.
That's a new project. Good luck.
4) obviously, fixing bugs as I find them in these two previous activities.
This is a precious things: it improves the whole landscae.
There are currently a few barriers to me making really good progress
on this:
1) HiDPI not being fully baked is causing me a lot of usability
problems, so I wind up working on my older systems. Which I don't
always have nearby. I would *really* like to help with this, but a lot
of it is way out of my depth. If someone who has the right knowledge
would like to discuss this with me and help me get a better
understanding, I'd love to take it on.
Better Hi-Res support is needed also when running on Windows and it
limits quite a bit the usefulness of GS apps on modern Win8 and Win10
install which usually render UI elements at a scaled percentage.
However, work on your issue in Terminal is ongoing.
Let's hack! (or continue to..)
Riccardo
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