Re: Plans for change....

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

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. ;) Users like things to
> look "good". This is entirely subjective. Personally, I think GNOME  
> and
> KDE are quite ugly under the best of circumstances. To this end, we
> need to make integrated theming available in GNUstep and make it easy.

As long as the NEXTSTEP look is still available this is OK to me.... ;-)

> 3)
> Eliminate the need for GNUstep.sh, either by making GNUstep place it's
> binaries and libraries in more "standard" places, or by providing an
> installation procedure

I would strongly prefer the first option, unless GNUstep becomes a  
full-blown desktop environment...

> 6) Decide what we are. Yes,
> that's right. Some people view GNUstep as a desktop, others view
> GNUstep as a development environment. GNUstep needs to define  
> itself as
> one or the other. The website says it's a development environment, but
> it has many aspects which fit the definition of a desktop environment.
> In truth, I believe it should be both.

In either case, if sb wants to use GNUstep as a development  
environment/cross-platform framework only then IMO there should be no  
need to have any deamons running in the background, it should just be  
a simple set of libraries/frameworks/DLLs. This would make adoption a  
lot easier.

Just my $0.01 ... ;-)

-Phil
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