Gregory,
I am not saying GNUstep should be just OpenStep, it should be an
evolution of OpenStep taking advantage of advancements in Open Source
software. Tying GNUstep to OSX means eliminating much of the
usefulness and functionality which Apple has given up in pursuit of
popularity. Apple's switch from vertical to horizontal menus was not
driven by improvement, it was driven by usability studies of Windows
trained users and in the process eliminated very useful tear-of menus.
I went out and bought two MACs when I saw OSX then they started
tearing out functions and throwing them away so I sold my MACs and
went to a pure Linux household. OSX has gone off on a tangent trying
to enforce Apples vision of how a desktop should look and how a
desktop should operate, eliminating all choice in the process. Apple
writes software to sell hardware. I would also be fearful of making
GNUstep too much like OSX which is produced by one of the most
litigation-happy corporations in history.
Glade is a development environment with which you build GTK and Gnome
applications, Xcode is a development environment with which you build
OSX applications.
I would say that GNUstep is a "Desktop" and that a PART of that
desktop is a rich development environment. WindowMaker is not a
desktop it is a Window Manager. I can't get past the flowers on
Etoile to figure out what it is.
Don't think for minute that I don't appreciate your efforts, I am
pleased with the current usability of the GNUstep environment compared
to 5 years ago but I dream of a day when I have a purely GNUstep
desktop with everything written in Objective-C or C where I can modify
every application using Gorm and Project Center and do everything I
need to do without needing to resort to things like OpenOffice or
FireFox.
-j
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