On 19 Nov 2019, at 13:16, James Carthew wrote:
I've been toying with NextSpace in a VM. From my experience, if this
gains a web browser and network settings panel (mostly for Wifi
config), (and gets Debian packages) it could easily replace Mate on my
machines. Linux desktop application development is terrible at the
moment.
+1
GNUstep may not be the right answer for me, but I'm open to at least
exploring it. NSMacintoshMenuStyle works in NextSpace, and I had
Rik.theme built/working properly.
That’s promising to hear. I’m very interested in trying this out on
Debian/Ubuntu!
I was hoping to get Etoile WildMenus running as well but ran out of
time.
Would be very interesting.
NextSpace is definitely moving in the right direction. I think the
focus on System settings is definitely the way to go. As someone who
would like to get a mac-like desktop out of this eventually I'd like
to see some of the options ported into SystemPreferences.app just
because it's a more mac-like application.
Full ack.
But I like how NextSpace has the look/feel of NextStep, definitely
keep it up. I know the ideal would be to port webkit to gnustep but at
this point I'd be happy to just throw firefox into a gnustep window
with an application menu.
+1
So I’m very much supporting Sergii in his approach. If his
developments are going to be compatible with GNUstep upstream, I’d
love to have/get this packaged and installable for my distribution of
choice (Debian/Ubuntu) to recommend it to regular users.
Johannes