Gregory John Casamento wrote:
All,
All of this discussion on the list has made my consider that GNUstep
needs to resolve this confusion once and for all. Are we a desktop
or a development environment? I believe that we can, and should, be
both. One of the steps we need to take towards doing this is the
creation of another project which will be the official GNUstep desktop.
Up until now we've had 4 or 5 projects playing at being the official
desktop in an effort to fill the void.
I believe that all of this is senseless duplication and that what we
need is a *coordinated* effort towards making a cohesive and
attractive GNUstep desktop environment. We need to focus on what
will make an exciting and easy experience for both users and
developers. Whether it is done in the same repository as GNUstep or
in a separate one, that's up for debug.
Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on the above?
Thanks, GJC
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I'd much rather prefer GNUstep to stay a cross-platform API and
development environment, rather than trying to be a bit of everything.
It would hurt commercial applicability of GNUstep, such as we do at our
company, if I had to deploy tons of other software together with my
GNUstep app. Some for of coordination between a full-blown desktop and
the GNUstep development framework would be nice, of course, but it
should not directly affect GNUstep development. I'd rather see the
relationship between GNUstep and it's "official" desktop be something
like GTK+ or Qt are to all DEs built on it - they are foundations of
them, but is also usable to build stand-alone apps.
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