Hey Greg,
I’ve seen your tweet: https://twitter.com/bheron/status/1696627365751988414 well done! But then again I had a discussion in very well frequented german IT-forum today, where I got this answer: https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/Kommentare/Linux-Mint-Das-bessere-Windows-c-t-3003/Re-Bitte-mal-eine-GNUstep-basierte-Distribution-testen/posting-43060613/show/ It translates to: What's wrong with them using a modern theme? I'm not a fan of changing things all the time, but we have more than 16 colors and using a gradient here and there in the UI can significantly enhance controls without overly colorful design. When I see the screenshots of the project, the whole thing again looks like someone is building something that has to work at 640x480 with 16 colors, although I can imagine that the principles behind it would still/again make sense today. Something in the direction of Windows 7 or Breeze optics would really not hurt. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) I answered that GNUstep already has themes, but when searching for https://gnustep.github.io/experience/Theming.html I found out that this page is nowhere linked from the front page, so I knew it exists but I had to google it. All in all our web presence (while looking somewhat sleek) is in a kinda sorry state: It doesn’t get those messages around: - We are not Window Maker and Window Maker alone is not GNUstep - We are a cross platform implementation (Linux, BSDs, Windows) of Cocoa, formerly OpenStep - We are up to date (here Greg knows best which features of which macOS version are supported) - We are themable (adding some screenshots of modern themes on the frontpage would be great) additionally: - GNUstep can be used as a desktop environment (a link to a somewhat maintained one would be good here, for instance https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace ). Even better it would be if we had our own reference implementation of a desktop environment, but I see this is wishful thinking, as we lack the manpower to do so (no offense to women by the way ;-)). But as of now we come over as we would be a „software museum“ not as something contemporary. Sorry, I had to say this, but when I bring GNUstep on the table in discussions I regularly get laughed at: „Are you serious? This stuff is from the last century!“ We need to stop this! Rant over. Kind regards, Lars > Am 29.08.2023 um 18:35 schrieb lars.sonchocky-helld...@hamburg.de: > > Maybe you should write a blog post about this or at least tweet it. The > IT-world needs to know and it doesn’t. It still thinks GNUstep is just Window > Maker and old fashioned looking. Had this discussion just two days ago. Again. > > Kind regards, > > Lars > >> Am 29.08.2023 um 16:21 schrieb Gregory Casamento <greg.casame...@gmail.com>: >> >> As you guys know, Algoriddim makes use of GNUstep on Windows. It has just >> been released in beta: >> >> https://www.algoriddim.com/store/djay-windows-beta >> >> It looks pretty awesome!! GC >> -- >> Gregory Casamento >> GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant >> http://www.gnustep.org <http://www.gnustep.org/> - >> http://heronsperch.blogspot.com <http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/> >> https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=352392 - Become a Patron >> https://www.openhub.net/languages/objective_c - OpenHub standings >
