All,
I've written up a short list of things that I want GNUstep to accomplish in the
year to come:
As Chief maintainer, it is up to me to determine the direction of the project.
Over
the past several years interest in GNUstep has steadily increased, but
not nearly by enough. In order to reach a
Hi Gregory,
good luck as GNUstep maintainer!
On 16.12.2006, at 05:10, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
1)
Adopt a more modern look. This includes the look of the windows, the
color scheme and how the menus are rendered. It's okay to let that old
gui go, it's not going to kill you to do so. ;) User
Am 16.12.2006 um 05:10 schrieb Gregory John Casamento:
All,
I've written up a short list of things that I want GNUstep to
accomplish in the year to come:
As Chief maintainer, it is up to me to determine the direction of
the project.
.
.
.
2)
Make regular releases. Start courting diff
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Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 8:46:15 AM
Subject: Re: Plans for change
Am 16.12.2006 um 05:10 schrieb Gregory John Casamento:
> All,
>
> I've written up a short list of things that I want GNUstep to
> accomplis
On 16/12/2006, at 5:10, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
1)
Adopt a more modern look.
I like the original GUI as it has a sober and calm look and I
wouldn't mind a new GUI, but there are a lot of imperfections
especially in shoddy text placement that makes it look unfinished.
It's quite eas
Henrik,
> I like the original GUI as it has a sober and calm look and I
> wouldn't mind a new GUI, but there are a lot of imperfections
> especially in shoddy text placement that makes it look unfinished.
> It's quite easy to tell the difference between GNUstep and NeXTStep
> screenshots,
Hi Gregory,
Congratulations on becoming chief maintainer. Thanks for your work so
far, and thanks for your commitment to the project.
And, of course, thanks to Adam for all of his work as chief maintainer
as well.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:10:01 -0800 (PST), Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL
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> All,
>
> I've written up a short list of things that I want GNUstep to accomplish
> in the year to come:
>
> As Chief maintainer, it is up to me to determine the
> direction of the project.
To me, that sounds very reasonable. Themes are very important. Dynamic
layout/sizing like Renaissance
On 12/17/06, David Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've written up a short list of things that I want GNUstep to accomplish
> in the year to come:
>
> As Chief maintainer, it is up to me to determine the
> direction of the project.
To me, that sounds very reasonable. Themes are very
Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> Well, hardcoded position does make localization look better
> considering the languages are quite
> different in west and east.
Wrong, because auto-layout will take care of that. I have seen some Mac Apps
that had too big German
labels...
--
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetz
On 12/17/06, David Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> Well, hardcoded position does make localization look better
> considering the languages are quite
> different in west and east.
Wrong, because auto-layout will take care of that. I have seen some Mac Apps
that had too bi
Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> I think this argument falls into the category as the scroll bar
> should be on the right or left.
> There is no solution to make everyone happy.
Maybe you should read [1].
It is very simple. Scrollers are always parts of a scrollview. A theme can
change the layout.
Thi
On 12/17/06, David Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> I think this argument falls into the category as the scroll bar
> should be on the right or left.
> There is no solution to make everyone happy.
Maybe you should read [1].
It is very simple. Scrollers are always par
This is a news of GTK+ to be ported on Mac natively without X11.
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/12/illuminous_meet_gtk_1.html
The interesting part is the comment.
I would say the same comment may apply to GNUstep on Windows.
If GNUstep doesn't gain popularity on its native platform (Unix,
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Subject: Re: Plans for change
> All,
>
> I've written up a short list of things that I want GNUstep to accomplish
> in the year to come:
>
> As Chief maintainer, it is up to me
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Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 5:21:27 PM
Subject: Re: Plans for change
On 12/17/06, David Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
>
> > I think this argument falls into the category as the scroll bar
> > shoul
Gregory John Casamento wrote:
[...]
> I, personally, don't see much value in auto-layout, because
> GNUstep/OPENSTEP provides the user with a way to have a GUI for each
> locale, so that you can specifically tailor your GUI to each, but to
> each his own.
Well, it's not just about localization.
On Dec 18, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Hubert Chan wrote:
Gregory John Casamento wrote:
[...]
I, personally, don't see much value in auto-layout, because
GNUstep/OPENSTEP provides the user with a way to have a GUI for each
locale, so that you can specifically tailor your GUI to each, but to
each his
Gregory John Casamento wrote:
All,
I've written up a short list of things that I want GNUstep to accomplish in the
year to come:
As Chief maintainer, it is up to me to determine the direction of the project.
Over
the past several years interest in GNUstep has steadily increased, but
not nearl
--- Original Message
From: Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Henrik Mikael Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; GNUstep Developers
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 5:15:30 PM
Subject: Re: Plans for change
Henrik,
> I like the original GUI as it has a sober and calm
On 16.12.2006, at 23:24, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
I now ask these questions: What was the original goal of NeXT with
their OS? Should that goal not also be the same for GNUstep?
The original goal of OPENSTEP was to create a crossplatform set of
libraries which could be easily used. These
On 17/12/2006, at 23:10, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
On 16.12.2006, at 23:24, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
I now ask these questions: What was the original goal of NeXT with
their OS? Should that goal not also be the same for GNUstep?
The original goal of OPENSTEP was to create a crossplatf
elopers
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 5:10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Plans for change (minor correct of previous post)
On 16.12.2006, at 23:24, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
>> I now ask these questions: What was the original goal of NeXT with
>> their OS? Should that goal not also be
evelopment environment and API as possible.
GJC
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Gregory Casamento
## GNUstep Chief Maintainer
- Original Message
From: Henrik Mikael Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: GNUstep Developers
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:07:15 PM
Subject: Re: Plans for change (minor correct
On 12/18/06, Henrik Mikael Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 17/12/2006, at 23:10, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
> On 16.12.2006, at 23:24, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
>>> I now ask these questions: What was the original goal of NeXT with
>>> their OS? Should that goal not also be the s
Hmmm..
On 18.12.2006, at 02:57, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
And NeXT clearly failed with this strategy ;-)
To go into all of the reasons why NeXT failed is beyond the scope of
this email. But, suffice it to say, it wasn't this strategy that
failed them,
it was the idea that you could cha
idea.
Later, GJC
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Gregory Casamento
## GNUstep Chief Maintainer
- Original Message
From: Philippe C.D. Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: GNUstep Developers
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:01:49 PM
Subject: Re: Plans for change...
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