On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Gregory Casamento <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hey Sergii, > > I think this is awesome. I can’t wair to try it out! > > I hope you will not be disappointed. :) > 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/ > -- Sergii Stoian, ProjectCenter maintainer
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