Hi, On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:51:29 -0800, Sergei Gnezdov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:59:53PM +0100, Nicolas Roard wrote: > > But of course we don't want to forget the user, but the UI itself > > wasn't part of my mail (that's why the desktop sections are so short). > > I was merely trying to organize the different important points we want > > to do. > > IMHO the project goals are not very clear.
Well, it's not that unclear : étoilé aims to be a desktop, using the GNUstep libs. > Why is this project not part of GnuStep? Because GNUstep (not GnuStep ;-) goals aren't that :-) GNUstep is a free implementation of the OpenStep API, not a desktop. If you want, it's in the same position as Qt. Additionally to beeing an implementation of the API, it also provides development tools such as ProjectCenter (an IDE) and Gorm (an interface builder,.. more than that in fact..) But it's not a desktop, and it's not among its goal. The thing is, the border is a bit fuzzy because GNUstep provides services that in other "desktops" belongs effectively to the desktop libs. And GWorkspace, a file manager for GNUstep, is now hosted on the GNUstep's cvs. Yet what I said is still true -- beeing a desktop is not the goal of the GNUstep project. Having a separate project is better here, because not everybody on GNUstep cares about a desktop (lots of people use GNUstep on the server side), and we avoid things like opposition to changes (like the UI's look). > All I know (and I don't know that much about Objective-C and GnuStep) > is that you've got what seems to be the only Unit testing solution for > Objective-C and GnuStep. Yes. ps: when you respond to a mail, could you at least Cc: the list as well ? thanks :-) -- Nicolas Roard
