Am 30.01.2014 um 09:41 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>:
> Thanks for the kind words. It is nice to see somebody praising the "Bastion > of true OpenStep" while most people usually seek better GNOME or KDE > integration. You use no light works calling them "infesting" :) Lately the > world is infested by even worse stuff than those which, at the end, are > somehow our distant cousins. We have Unity, Windows 8, MacOS 10.9.... > > Anyway, more power? well we have the power we have in terms of users and > developers. Perhaps few people share your same ideas or, perhaps, even if > they do, they devote little of their actual time developing them. Sorry, but since I have worked a lot on integration between GNUstep and ‘foreign’ desktop environments in the past few years, I feel compelled to comment on this: I think it is ill-advised to draw too stark an opposition between ‘true OpenStep’ and the likes of KDE/Gnome/Unity etc. At least in my view, we are not trying to improve integration because we believe that their approaches to interacting with a computer are inherently better (in that case, I would probably be contributing to those projects instead), but precisely because we have limited manpower: Providing interfaces to hook into stuff that other people have already written (and are probably committed to maintaining for a while) is much more effective than writing everything from scratch. It’s also a good way for ‘onboarding’ people who just want to try out a piece of GNUstep-based software. If it blends into their existing setup nicely, I would assume that it’s a bit more likely that they stick around and contribute. So rather than looking at it as a dilution of the OpenStep ideals, I would ask you to look at it as an opportunity to get people interested in our project. Thanks, Niels _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
