Hi Bruce,
bruce wrote:
I love gnustep objective-c and Foundation. But the UI is pretty ugly.
Theming fixes it cosmetically, but it doesn’t fix the real issues. The
menu and main icon don’t really fit on any modern desktop. And the GUI
itself is buggy, and leaves artifacts strewn all over the window.
Style is a matter of taste. Bugs not. I don't experience any artifacts
when using windows in any of the applications I use.
So perhaps it could be an issue of a specific application or a bug of
your installation or environment.
So tbh, I’ve been investigating GtkSharp, since dotnet8.0 is now
available on linux, and is in ‘beta’ on freebsd. While investigating
that, I discovered gtkcore, a gtk binding for gnustep. It has some
minor issues, but not the magnitude of the issues with cocoa, and gtk
is well known territory.
That's your choice and it probably also depends on your desire and needs.
You could also try out (and possibly fixing, since it has been left into
the state of beta) the native Gtk theme, that would give you native
widgets and a decently integrated appearance, uncovering another maze of
issues though.
Gtk is not my favorite toolkit, I would prefer a working cocoa, or
even qt. But the freebsd desktop uses it in xfce, and with gnustep
cocoa so unusable, I’m thinking that gtkcore is now the only way ahead
to develop gui applications with gnustep. Or, I suppose you could fix
cocoa - but that gets so much push back I’ve given up hope.
I don't understand fully: "cocoa" is Apple and has its own
implementation, GNUstep is essentially a parallel implementation mostly
compatible, QT is yet another beast. You are mixing things up a bit.
Riccardo
