SORRY I FORGOT TO REPLY TO ALL I like using GNUstep because it feels like NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP, so I want to see GNUstep as an actual desktop. Not as something that runs on top of another desktop. I feel like that should be the primary focus, and then all the hooks for running on top of Windows, Unity, or w.e should be secondary
So, I wish GNUstep was a distribution of its own. It might be psychological, but I feel it is more often than not treated as an add-on. And I understand that it is because there is no native GNUstep web-browser, no document editing software, et cetera. So one can not simply use GNUstep as a desktop just yet. I spent the last 3 years working on my own IDE for Mac OS X (and programming language) that I have always intended to be ported to GNUstep. But it is a NO-GO. Because I spend more time trying to figure out how to get Clang, ObjC 2, and Cairo to work (by setting arguments and what not) — Which are absolutely required for what I am doing. I rèad there is support for ARC, but I haven't even started to investigate it on GNUstep. I feel like it is too much of a chore to figure out how to get it going. The Wiki should be cleaned up. Or just deleted and started form scratch. I am tired of the instructions that do not work, sometimes they just make me feel stupid. The non Clang/ObjC2 configurations should be dropped. (MY OPINION) I haven't installed GNUstep from scratch in about three weeks - a month or so, and I haven't been following as closely as I used to. For all I know these issues have been solved. It really is about advertisement. As for what other people dream… I guess it is that GNUstep can run on everything — including Windows. I am sure that people are reading this going: It is not that bad, I get it running all the time. It works fine. So I've kept out of it. What is easy for others is sometimes daunting for me. On Aug 8, 2013, at 9:19 PM, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, regarding the "Dream of GNUstep" if you could tell me what everyone > else is dreaming it would be helpful. Obviously all of us on GNUstep are not > dreaming the same thing everyone else seems to be. > > I realize this question sounds sarcastic, but I'm being serious. I very much > want to know what people outside of this project want to see from GNUstep.
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