Hi, This looks very nice, but a few comments:
- Apple still owns the NeXT trademark, so be careful about using NEXT in the name. - NeXT used the NX prefix (NS = NeXT + Sun, NX = NeXT), so using it as your prefix is confusing. - Please don’t put big RPMs in the repo! It adds overhead to anyone who clones it, and GitHub has a perfectly adequate Downloads facility for hosting these. - It would be easier to package (and to collaborate) if these were separate GitHub repos. David > On 25 Nov 2017, at 22:35, 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 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
