On 27 October 2014 13:09, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > ouch, that hurts! As one of the core developers in GAP! Being not known is a > problem! > > http://gap.nongnu.org > > Don't you see the App release announcements? Many come from here. > > Short for "GNUstep Application Project" it is the home of many applications > and frameworks either Freshly developed or ported. It is also the place > where many existing applications that were unmaintained and where bitrotting > found a home and get at least some maintenance and bugfix care. > > > > It is not really a "complete DE" and Etoile has for now more comprehensive > (and perhaps more radical) goals, but we are a small team and try to keep up > with the applications and tools first. > > Riccardo > > PS: for the sake of completeness, there is a third project involved in > enhancing your desktop experience: Backbone. I forgot to mention it because > it follows the philosophy of continuous development (=get your stuff from > SVN/GIT) and did not release or announce anything since a long time. I don't > know in which state it is. http://www.nongnu.org/backbone/ > Actually, for this reason GAP has its copy of Terminal.app for now.
Sorry! :¬( I understand now. I think I have seen the site before but in this context I didn't understand. I thought it was a different GNUstep-based desktop, comparable to Étoilé. Here is an idea for you. Not a well-thought-out proposal, merely a suggestion. GNUstep really needs its own web browser and its own chat client, I would say. Everything else is there already. Firefox is very reconfigurable. Ubuntu has a Firefox Ubuntu extension that makes Firefox "fit" with the Unity environment -- its single menu bar at the top of the screen, control via the HUD, icon notifications etc. If someone took that extension and reconfigured it, Firefox could have a GNUstep menu bar and fit into the GNUstep environment really nicely. It does not even need to be written from scratch -- just adapted. https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/xul-ext-ubufox/ https://launchpad.net/ubufox And if there were a GNUstep-branded Google Search page as the homepage, it would bring in a little revenue for the GNUstep project, as well. :¬) -- 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 Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
