On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 17:32 CEST, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: > This may be a silly question - forgive me if so. > > Is there a current GNUstep-based distribution, at all? > > I have been experimenting with Window Maker and many of the GNUstep > apps recently, but my efforts to find a desktop distro based around > this have been in vain. I am aware of Window Maker Live and Simply > GNUstep, but both are now very dated indeed.
If you don't mind running BSD, there is OpenBSD ;) Install it, put this into your .profile: VERSION=5.3 export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/${VERSION}/packages/`uname -m`/ source that file, run: sudo pkg_add -i gnustep-desktop afterward, put this into your .xsession: if [ -f /usr/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh ];then . /usr/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh fi export GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING=NSUTF8StringEncoding export LC_ALL='en_EN.UTF-8' export LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8' if [ -x /usr/local/bin/gpbs ];then /usr/local/bin/gpbs fi if [ -x /usr/local/bin/gdnc ];then /usr/local/bin/gdnc fi wmaker & if [ -x /usr/local/bin/GWorkspace ];then /usr/local/bin/make_services /usr/local/bin/GWorkspace fi Then login, and enjoy your GNUstep desktop ;) Note: OpenBSD 5.3, comes with GNUstep from about a year ago. Since the last release, and the freshly released/updates apps and libs,happened just too late for the release cycle. If you want to have the latest greatest, you should install OpenBSD from snapshots ;) I forgot, here is a list of GNUstep based ports that get installed when you install the gnustep-desktop meta package: http://readme.portsbug.me.uk/cat/x11/gnustep > > Pretty much all the tools to create one are in the Debian > repositories, and thus also in Ubuntu. By "all the tools", I mean a > window manager, text editor, terminal, image viewer, calculator, email > client, media player, etc. The only items missing are the big > productivity apps - an office suite, web browser and chat client. > Fortunately those are easily obtained, although of course they do not> share > the look & feel. > > However, there are some problems which suggest to me that the > components in the Debian repos are long-neglected. > > E.g., menu generation in Window Maker is broken, although there is a> > workaround; the wdm desktop manager is unable to shutdown or reboot > the machine; and the FSviewer file manager app is missing, although > its icon set is still present. > > I have also found that the GWorkSpace app seems to conflict with > Window Maker itself - you get two Docks, for instance, one positioned> > top-left in NeXT style and one centred, Mac OS X style. However, I > can't find how to add icons to the GWorkSpace dock, nor how to > customise its menus, so I have been more or less forced to base my > exploratory efforts around Window Maker, which offers quite good > customisability. A GWorkspace user-guide, you may find here: http://gnustep.made-it.com/Guides/GWorkspace.html cheers, Sebastian > > The closest seems to be the Étoilé project, but to put it mildly, they > really do not embrace the "release early, release often" mantra. > AFAICS they have never released so much as a demo version in around a> decade > of work! > > Would anyone be interested in helping me to produce a Window Maker- > and GNUstep-based Ubuntu remix, at all? I am collating the tools but I > am not very experienced in this area... > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile> Email: > [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven > MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven > Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 > > _______________________________________________> Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
