(Note, I tried to post this in Nabble, but it has been pending, so I am trying again by sending it here... please excuse the duplicate...)
Hello all! Pardon me for a long email... but I want to introduce myself.. I have recently re-entered the *nix world. I left it back when Curses was considered a GUI , so it's been awhile. I am a rusty Unix/C programmer. I am working on a new project and I did some research that lead me to GNUStep, and then to you here at Etoile. I like the concepts of GNUStep -- but it looks about 100 years old right now, so I am very interested in your work here. Also, interestingly enough, the project I want to work on has a place for both a Linux Appliance, and an external app running on the OpenMoko Neo1973 - so I was relieved to also see the QuantumSTEP/mySTEP project. My background (until recently) was working for Expert Systems/ruels companies. I have this dream of creating an incredibly simply interface to a rules language to enable a neophyte to string together and configure computer controlled instruments and gadgets. Sort of like taking the idea of Skinning an application, Or themeing a desktop, and applying this to a home... or a car. Put together the output of one device (i.e. the gas gauge of a car) with the input of another device (i.e. the GPS of your car to find the nearest gas station) and create automated rules to make life better. The idea of the rules system would be "Legos and Logic". Click two things together, build a simple rule, and presto! new functionality. Anyway, there is so much work on the back end of this, that I really don't want to be building a great GUI and framework -- I would like to leverage GNUStep and Etoile for most of that work. I am not sure I have the C programming background to contribute to your work... but maybe as I get my C-Legs back under me I can help with some things. To be honest, I am probably going to be more of a user of your great work than a contributor. I would be happy to do what I can though to help spread the word. I enjoy doing things like writing tutorials and the like. So, maybe I can best help out there. So... that's a little about me.. now I have a question: Where do I start??? Am I best off just doing my work in GNUStep right now? Or should I download and try to use Etiole in its current state? I am not really sure how to even do that. I would like to at least add Camaelon to and WildMenus to GNUStep -- but again, I am not sure how to do that either. (I see them listed in my Synaptic Project manager... but not sure how to implement them... is there a doc somewhere?) I am running UBUNTU right now, with GNOME. I have Window Maker installed, and can boot it -- but I really hate running Window Maker... I have discovered that I can MOSTLY run Gorm and GNUSTEP while still in GNOME. Sometimes weird things happen... But it is what I am doing right now. Any suggestions about where I should start? _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
