On Thu, May 19, 2016, at 08:08 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Steven > > Steven R. Baker wrote: > > > >> If you have isseus, let's discuss them, but there are some which I do > >> not know how to fix. > >> Which other apps are you missing? > > Great question, and thank you for asking! There is a rather long and > > complicated answer here. > > I actually intended to ask "what other apps of collaboration world" are > you missing. > The fact that we miss a lot of stuff in GNUstep is a fact! Also, as your > list shows, everybody has its personal preferences.
Whoops! > > > > > About a year ago I gave up my Macs to return to ThinkPads running > > Debian. At the time of leaving the Mac, I was using the built-in stuff, > > plus Things, DEVONthink, and VoodooPad. So I'm looking for replacements > > of all of that. I've been struggling a lot with where to land, and > > contribute my efforts. I've spend some time on GNOME, KDE, and have even > > dabbled in Enlightenment land, to see what can provide everything I'm > > looking for *and* be an enjoyable place to contribute. So far I have > > found pros and cons, but I think I'm going to be happiest in GNUstep > > land. > > One of my goals with GNUstep has always been to have a ThinkPad (and the > old Vista and ThinkCentres) running it and make a workstation or laptop > as NeXT would have done it. That is Mac, without all the gizmo :) > Especially since nowadays Macs are little more than PCs and Mac (and > Windows) went down the route of being tabletized/phoneized more and more. > > > > > I really miss the quantity and quality of what I'll broadly refer to as > > "Productivity Apps" on the Mac, and my life is considerably less chaotic > > and crazy when I'm a Mac user with a great suite of productivity > > applications. But I hate myself for supporting the closed, proprietary, > > unsustainable technology category. And, I find it hard to get "real > > work" done on a Mac. > > > > My first order of business is to get good replacements for AddressBook, > > Calendar, and Mail from OS X. I am currently working on some UI > > improvements to SimpleAgenda, and after that I'll focus on > > CardDav/CalDav support. The only thing I'm missing from GNUmail is IMAP > > IDLE support, which I'll have to figure out how to add to Pantomime, I > > guess. And some form of Sieve filter management. > > I have no clue what IMAP IDLE is, but IMAP support in GNUmail works, but > is not totally stable. When there are faults, the application crashes > instead of recovering. Before adding new features to GNUMail, I'd like > to stabilize it and clean up its code. It is a slow in-progress process. I completely agree. Do you have an issue tracker with known bugs? I'd like to exercise these and help where I can. IMAP IDLE is basically "push" support; leaves a socket open, and lets the client know when changes happen. > You should use Addresses from GAP, which had a bit of fixes. Will look. Thanks! > > > > I've also started (slowly) working on an app I'm calling "Tickler" which > > will be a GTD app (using TaskWarrior as a backend). Once that's usable, > > I'll probably be hooked for life. I have a few small projects I want to > > explore: an MTP browser for talking to my Android phone, NewsBlur > > support for Grr, a few dock apps for laptop-related things. And figuring > > out why Terminal.app flips its pancakes over Swedish characters in > > filenames. > > No clue what you are mentioning there... however it is ironic what you > say about Terminal, since the original Author is swedish. Sadly he > doesn't contribute to it anymore. > I hope you are using Terminal from GAP. I'll test against the GAP one. It might be a font issue. > > As I'm sure you'll understand, this takes time and patience, and while I > > have both in spades right now, it may not last. The quick responses on > > the GNUstep mailing lists is certainly encouraging. Of course, I intend > > to share my knowledge and work as I go. > > It has been 13 years I am working on more and more apps, getting them to > work and keeping them up to date. > Nice that you have enthusiasm, is it needed, because the task is immense > :) > You will also understand when you check out the "vastity" of apps there > that stabilizing them is an humongous task. I would rpefer several of > them to have solid foundations before adding stuff... Couldn't agree more. My specific expertise is in automated testing, so I'm going to certainly focus on some of that. > So Check out what's around. If you are using Debian packages, remember > several of them are very old and unstable. Eric Heintzmann is perhaps > updating them and that would be very welcome! > > Generally my compromise would be to have "less" but "something that > works". My feeling of many Mac apps is that they are full of bells and > whistles. > I do lack a bit the integrated Mac experience when i am on my > GNUstep-ized environments. Agree, this is one bit I'd like to focus on. -Steven > Riccardo _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
