Hey Sergii, I think this is awesome. I can’t wair to try it out!
GC On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 17:35 Sergii Stoian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > More than 15 years ago I joined the GNUstep development because I like > NeXT's OS design, look and feel. At that time my dream was to return > NeXTSTEP desktop to Linux. After 15+ years my dream still alive. I > understand that GNUstep project goals somewhat changed over these years. > And this is good until project is interesting to broad kind (goals, tastes) > of people involved in it's development. > > Finally I've decided to inform dear community about my project of last 2+ > years. > I've named is NEXTSPACE. It is SPACE for NeXT applications. > You can find code and brief description of project here > https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace. > It is not finished yet. However I use it as my desktop environment on > daily basis. > You can find RPMs in Packages directory: > * libdispatch and libobjc2 > * nextspace-core - system specific files: skeleton for user home > firectory, shell profile, udev, polkit, etc. > * nextspace-gnustep - GNUstep libraries with my patches. > The next step is to build Frameworks, then Appplications. You can create > new user with all needed files inside it's home dir. You can start Login > with command 'systemctl start loginwindow' or login to newly created user > from your login application (it should start ~/.xinitrc in user home dir). > That's it. > > Some noticeable achievements I've got: > * I integrated Workspace and WindowMaker into Workspace Manager. That's it > - one application. It was made possible by using libdispatch and libobjc2. > For example, when non-GNUstep application starts Workspace's Processess > panel shows it with info grabbed from WindowMaker. Another example: when > you start application by double-clicking in File Viewer and appicon already > exists in Dock icon fly from FileViewer's to docked appicon. > * In general Workspace is ready to be NSWorkspace povider. > * GNUstep and WindowMaker unified look and feel (menus and titlebars, > fonts, miniwindows). > * Media management: Workpace automatically mounts removable media inserted > (UDisks integration). > * Terminal: a lot of improvements. It's better to see it. > * -NXAutoLaunch option implemented. Now applications started with this > option doesn't show menu at all. No focus flickering. Smooth as it should > be. > * Preferences: everything you need to set up must be here. Not only > GNUstep NSGlobalDomain options (localization, fonts) but system specific > options also (display, keyboard, mouse, sound, networking). > * A lot of other things I can't recall now but I write it down someday. ;) > > There are some facts I don't like and want to change: > * NEXTSPACE is based on quite outdated release of GNUstep (base 1.24.8, > gui and back 0.24.1); > * It is based on ART backend. I want to use Cairo backend but ART has > usefull features (.nfont packages provide ability to set hinting and > antialiasing options on per font basis). > * DE needs documentation. I plan to discuss NSHelpPanel implementation > with you guys. First of all we need to define format for help files. > * It is developed and tested on CentOS 7. I have no plans in near future > to port it somewhere else. I need to finish what I've started first. > > PS: My apologies to community for being off the track so long. Now you > know why. > My current strategy is the following: > 1. Finish NEXTSPACE to be feature rich, stable and fast. I guess this step > will be done until next summer. > 2. Return to development of ProjectCenter. First of all PC badly needs > good editor, then GORM interoperation and next debugger. > I hope my work will be useful not only for me but for GNUstep project also. > -- > Sergii Stoian, ProjectCenter maintainer > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com http://ind.ie/phoenix/
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