On Feb 14, 2:42 pm, Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote: > dan wrote: > > I would like to mess around with gnustep again. > > > When i did it before (several years ago) there were daemons > > to start, lots of stuff to build, and so on, but it looks like > > now all i need is a debian system i just have to run > > apt-get to build everything? (This from looking at > >http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Linux.) > > > Is the right approach to run it virtually (vmware or maybe > > some free equivalent)? > > > What would be ideal would be whatever the modern > > equivalent of what simply gnustep was supposed to be, > > i think. > > > Thanks in advance for any advice (including pointers > > to faqs, or projects --- i've looked around, e.g., at > >http://etoileos.com/, but i'm sort of uncertain and > > i'd like a common path to tread on first). > > > My interest is in writing and rescuing some > > old, old applications. Hi Fred,
Thanks for your reply. Actually, having a modern look is not so important to me. I think, for example, that the floating, detachable menus from the NeXT interface are better than the menu across the top in OS X. This is not to say that i don't like OS X, i mean, the time machine is pretty awesome, and i like the fact that you can hover your mouse over graphical elements and get a message about them. But i think that in some ways NeXT was optimal, and most changes to it would make it worse not better. Anyhow, i will probably follow your advice. The thing i remember having the most trouble with GNUstep was setting up all those daemons and i hope that by doing something in a vm i can make the process a little easier. dan > > Hi Dan, > > not sure what to tell you. Running GNUstep in a VM is fine, I do that > for GNUstep on Windows and somewhere I also have an old virtual Ubuntu... > > Etoile surely has a more modern look than GNUstep itself, but you can > change GNUstep's look easily via themes. Best you start of with just > GNUstep and then decide whether you want to add anything on top of that. > > Start off with the packages and then move on to GNUstep from SVN and > report back any problems you encounter. > > Fred _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
