-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Yen-Ju Chen wrote: > On 4/16/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 4/16/07, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I'm not sure Workspace is a good choice because it overlaps with >>>> 'Workspace' term used in other desktop environments which itself >>>> overlaps with 'Project' term in Étoilé. So I think it may be a good >>>> thing to find another name. That's why I decided to use 'Space' >>>> rather than 'Workspace' when working on my prototype. >>>> Aside of that, I personally like 'Outerspace' too. Any other opinions? >>> Well, this _thing_ is basically the start of our file manager/object >>> manager, which will eventually feature a prominant searching >>> interface, like Spotlight. David had suggested the name Sieve, which >>> I admit has grown on me. Space would also be okay. I also kind of >>> liked the names Deck or Ensemble, although they don't get across the >>> idea of searching. >> Well, I name it OuterSpace because people seems to like "Space", >> starting from OpenSpace.app. :) >> > > I just realize if we use OpenSpace manager, > there is no issue about file manager. > It is very straight-forward to import it (only the part of file manager). > It is by far a much better choice than OuterSpace.app and Space.app. > So if Saso agrees with that, I would like to spend some time on it > and see whether it can be worked out,
Sure, go ahead. > It can also probably serve as a prototype for "object manager", maybe. > There are two things I hope to clear first. > 1. I prefer to decompose the whole OpenSpace Manager into > several smaller components for easy reuse. > I haven't really look at the code, but I believe there are many things > which can be shared, ex. by dock and trash can, and maybe more. Wel, I remember I used a fairly modular architecture in the approach, but for the God of me, I don't remember its details anymore :-) > 2. The license is not clear. > Although I prefer BSD license, it is not my call. > But I do hope that it can be LGPL mostly so that some parts of it > can be converted into libraries without license issue > while application part can stay in license Saso prefers. Used whichever you prefer. > It may not be a target for LiveCD 0.2, > but in my own opinions, I cannot see a better choice for the future. > > Yen-Ju The main thing that OpenSpace Manager was falling short on is file management - it is buggy and not 100% reliable, and I didn't finish it off once I joined the Etoile project (as I pursued the idea of trying to unify the coding powers of GNUstep dev people, not split them up). - -- Saso -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGJbyYakxhuWWzY78RAz8VAJ9DTUBW+gfhNTnZ86xS8u01wLmUWQCfaRKP i2dBNPnUUXicqKVID5MK46s= =MCbL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
