Re: General Design Guidelines for GNUstep and apps

2024-04-03 Thread Ondrej Florian
Hi Thomas, I am afraid creating modern, OSX-like desktop would require very different approach than GSDE is taking. Using Wayland, process separation and something like D-bus for IPC for example. What makes GSDE cool is its simplicity. All of its consistency and power comes from the GNUstep

Re: General Design Guidelines for GNUstep and apps

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas
Hi Riccardo, so it seems I didn´t not everything wrong during installation :-). Something more is clear now and I have to train a little bit :-). Thank you Thomas > Am 03.04.2024 um 15:17 schrieb Riccardo Mottola : > > Hi Thomas, > > Thomas wrote: >> Hello, >> >> as I play around with GSDE

Re: Failing tests on MSVC in libs-base

2024-04-03 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Ivan Vučica wrote: I saw this: this was recently addressed by replacing probe of example.org/silly-url-test because example.org started returning 503 or similar for that URL instead of 404. We rely on github there... wonder what happened. But also creating the file doesn't seem to be a

Re: General Design Guidelines for GNUstep and apps

2024-04-03 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Thomas, Thomas wrote: Hello, as I play around with GSDE I noticed that there are some differences between the usage of the apps. Does a Design Guideline for GNUstep exists (as Apple has(d))? Not really, but we rely essentially on OpenStep behaviour, since that is the default "look and

Re: General Design Guidelines for GNUstep and apps

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas
Hi Ondrej, I would very very appriciate if these menus "hide others", "show all" or "quit“ and so on would stay and work GSDE wide in a uniform way :-). In my opinion you addressing one main reason for the tiny userbase GNUstep has. There is noch easy to use, comfortable home (a fine Desktop

Re: Failing tests on MSVC in libs-base

2024-04-03 Thread Ivan Vučica
I saw this: this was recently addressed by replacing probe of example.org/silly-url-test because example.org started returning 503 or similar for that URL instead of 404.Incoming PR addressed this on every other platform by replacing example.org with another piece of infrastructure we don’t fully