Hello All,
AGNoStep Desktop project is still in Beta but near to reach stability
stage.
The underlying operating system is Debian Trixie. So the target of the
future 1.0 RC release will be all kind of computers able to install on
Debian.
I dispatched the previous core project into two complementary
subprojects:
1. Agnostep-desktop: which installs the core desktop: WMaker, GNUstep
system, libs and frameworks, and the main core apps.
The principle is inspired by BSD ports: using the latest sources (git,
svn) or patches provided by the community (debian Salsa) to build all
from sources and to be ever up to date.
It also provides AgnostepManager, which allows to choose and to
install with ease Extra apps, Utilities, Games, Devel apps, User
Settings, Display Manager.
https://github.com/pcardona34/agnostep-desktop
2. Agnostep-theme: with a flat design and an icon-set adapted from the
Papirus project. It sets the user settings: choice betwin the flavours
of the theme (Conky Panel or Classic, i.e. more NeXT like), menu style
(NeXT vertical block or Mac menu bar)... A rotate wallpaper utility
with collections of pictures, generates .xinitrc, .xsession,
autostart, defaults...
As it was separated from the Desktop core project, it could now be
more easily ported to other projects with some little work I think.
It provides also usefull tools to monitor the system (date, time,
uptime, memory, cpu, storage, network, battery) and also:
- Updater to notify about upgradable Debian package, and Upgrade.app
to perform them.
- Birhday and Feast notify;
- Weather Heat...
- Printer: an helper to access CUPS admin.
It can uninstall itself to recover a classic GNUstep theme too.
https://github.com/pcardona34/agnostep-theme
Little things remain, but such details count.
So I would appreciate help or tips about:
a- The way to provide a generic menu for non native GNUstep
applications wrappers.
b- LoginPanel: I was not able to build it (I will write some message
apart). I use LightDM in the meanwhile.
c- What should be the best way to provide a demo for am64 systems? A
VM? For the arm64, I can create SD-Card images for the RPI's.
Regards,
Patrick
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Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux aarch64 (Debian 13.3)
Xorg (1:7.7+24) - libcairo2 (1.18.4-1+rpt1 arm64)
Window Maker (0.96.0-4) - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) - Theme:
AGNOSTEP - MUA: GNUMail (rev.947)
