James, Network settings section is in TODO of Preferences.app. Other things you've mentioned are not in my plan currently.
> On 19 Nov 2019, at 14:16, James Carthew <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been toying with NextSpace in a VM. From my experience, if this gains a > web browser and network settings panel (mostly for Wifi config), (and gets > Debian packages) it could easily replace Mate on my machines. Linux desktop > application development is terrible at the moment. GNUstep may not be the > right answer for me, but I'm open to at least exploring it. > NSMacintoshMenuStyle works in NextSpace, and I had Rik.theme built/working > properly. I was hoping to get Etoile WildMenus running as well but ran out of > time. NextSpace is definitely moving in the right direction. I think the > focus on System settings is definitely the way to go. As someone who would > like to get a mac-like desktop out of this eventually I'd like to see some of > the options ported into SystemPreferences.app just because it's a more > mac-like application. But I like how NextSpace has the look/feel of NextStep, > definitely keep it up. I know the ideal would be to port webkit to gnustep > but at this point I'd be happy to just throw firefox into a gnustep window > with an application menu. > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 22:49, Ivan Vučica <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 23:40 Sergii Stoian <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Plus themes support bloats the GNUstep codebase. I understand that the > initial idea was to attract more users/developers, but… It’s not working. > > Have you guessed why it's not working? > > Users who would be attracted by a different theme are not aware there are > different themes or how to set them up. > > A solution is to ship a "gnustep-recommended-config" package as a Recommends > of the libgnustep-gui package. Speaking in Debian terms; same goes for other > OSes. > > This package would pull in a theme and a systemwide plist configuring a > modernized theme etc. > > Today, if a KDE user born in 2001 installs a GNUstep program (they may not > care about the rest of the environment), the UI is totally out of sync with > their expectations. And if they go through the effort to explore an entire > environment, they get greeted by the 90s — whether they want it or not. > > Am I misreading expectations of a prospective user? > > I mean, these are my expectations, and I'm born in the late 80s. I love e.g. > System 7 look. NEXT look is decent to me (but just decent). I'm personally > around for the programming language and the frameworks, not for the default > theme. > > Nextspace seems cool and I should get around to trying it out.
