Re: The need for an official GNUstep desktop

[Sašo Kiselkov]

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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> Gregory John Casamento
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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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Saso