Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a developer I am most interested in what didn't work :-( Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from SVN? (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then this was a very old version of GNUstep)
And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system for GNUstep that didn't make it upstream? Fred Am 12.02.2010 13:27, schrieb J. Jordan: > After a couple of weeks of tinkering around, downloading every GNUstep > application, bundle, framework and dependency I could find I believe I > have a pretty functional system that demonstrates the current state of > GNUstep. > > First some notes: > > 1.) I am intentionally cross posting this in the hope that it ill get > some action on the underused Applications mailing list, so if you are > reading this on the General list please pop over to the Applications > list to leave your pithy comments, corrections, impeachments and flames. > > 2.) After an aborted attempt to use the latest cvs version of > base/back/gui I decided to stick with the "current release" as installed > by startup 0.23.0 I did build the arts backend as I could not tell > which backend Startup had built. > > 3.) I would consider myself a power user but am by no means a developer > (I am currently working my way through Dan Gookin's _C for Dummies_) > > I am running GNUstep on top of WindowMaker with DND and UserMenus > compiled in from cvs. I have compiled most of the below listed > applications several times. The best resource I have found for patches > is the Debian Patch tracking system, > > http://patch-tracker.debian.org/ > > I am writting this on LuserNET-0.4.2 which compiled and ran perfectly on > the first try. I have downloaded and partially read all of the GNUstep > mailing lists as well as the one active WindowMaker mailing list and > posted one message, this will be my second. Not a single crash so far, > wish I could spell check. > > SimpleAgenda cvs-714 is perhaps the very best individual scheduling > application in existence, for the first time in history I can actually > syncronize my schedule on my computer, the Internet and my pda/phone > (currently an Android) I'm using GCalDameon (an evil Java program) to > actually perform the sync with Gcal but SimpleAgenda's handling of the > .ics file makes it possible. Philippe Roussel has created an awsome > program and was extremely helpful getting it to do exactly what I > wanted. It is light, great looking and I have not been able to crash > this version. > > GNUmail is my daily email client, Tim Kack helped me get that running > and I am using it in conjunction with offlineimap (which is a python > program ( I hate python)) to provide offline and online access to > gmail. Occasional crash but works rather well. > > GWorkspace is my file manager, still learning to use some of the > capabilities, occasional crashes and I wish it did a few things a little > differently, will file some bug reports and requests. > > TextEdit-4, the only text editor I have found that can open an > arbitrarily extensioned text file, works well. Placing it on the > GWorkspace shelf allows you to drag and drop any text file to open it > including all of the README's, NEWS's and things like that. > > The non -Etoile version of Vindaloo-0.2 is my PDF viewer of choice, it > has by-far the best UI of any of the PDF viewers, cannot understand why > the Etoile folks moved the controls to the top of the window it in their > version but to each their own. YAP works pretty well also but the ever > growing string of radio buttons at the top is off-putting. > > MPDCon-1.1.99 is currently my primary music player, I hacked in a > different icon, buttons more to my taste and reorganized the UI a bit > (Have I mentioned that I love Gorm). It works great and I don't > remember it crashing. > > MplayerGS-0.6 had to hack (that is hack as in hatchet-job not hack as in > I know what I'm doing) the source code a little to get it to stop making > videos double height, pasted on some different button icons using Gorm > and rearranged the UI a bit. It has been rock solid through several > movies and music files. ( I like the idea of using established, mature > projects to provide underlying function.) > > Terminal0.9.6, Have had one open as root and one as me for days without > a crash, played with some of the service from TextEdit, changing > background color is still a little flaky. > > PRICE, Photoclip, Toyviewer and LaternaMagica all work reasonably well > but none of them do everything I want. I want a reasonably sized > default display of a picture, ability to move easily through pictures in > a directory, crop using a lasso style selection and the ability to use > as a Service to insert pictures in other apps; I know that is a lot to ask > > Just a couple more: > > TalkSoup is working well for me, could not get it to work on newer > versions of base/back/gui. > Zipper, wish it did not depend on Renissance, put an * in for the > filename to gunzip to a directory. > DictionaryReader works but can't seem to automatically access the server. > Charmap required a patch but you got to have it. > AClock, Batmon, Timemon all work pretty well. > FTP works but needs to store addresses. > > There are more that I am using but this is too long a post already. > > The one program I really would like to get working reliably is > CodeEditor (Still trying to finish Dan Gookin's book) If anyone has > patches for it please let me know. Tried to email Yen-Ju Chen but the > email got bounced. > > > Please point me toward other useful GNUstep programs, Vespucci looks > very promising and I wish Bean And Flexisheet were in a state that I > could at least play with them. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
