This may not be the sort of functionality that the GS devs are considering,
but following recent discussions, I thought I would ask...

GNUstep contains most of the components needed to build up a complete
desktop Linux distribution: window manager, desktop, launcher, terminal,
calculator, plain text and rich text editors, image viewers, etc.

The main 3 things missing, it seems to me, are:
* an office suite
* a web browser
* a chat program (cf. Pidgin, not IRC)

Ubuntu has taken an interesting direction in providing Unity-integrated
versions of such apps: they have written plugins for the off-the-shelf
LibreOffice and Firefox programs to cause them to display Unity menu bars.

Whereas I realise it would not aid API compatibility, I wondered if it
might be viable to examine these plugins and rewrite them to provide
GNUstep-style menus etc. so that they integrated with the rest of the
GNUstep desktop?

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