Hey,
On Sunday, September 10, 2006, at 02:33 PM, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
Personally I would integrate Etoilé into GNUstep (granted the authors
agree), update the GNUstep website to reflect this new "GNUstep
paradigm" ("GNUstep" being a GNU desktop for X11 based Unices) and
then advertise this as "GNUstep Alpha" or so (the frameworks/ libraries
can still be used as cross-platform API, of course).
I would not integrate etoile' at all!
also the new website should advertise the new paradigm, but not forget
the old one, which remains perfectly valid.
Also, gnustep... starts to be a bit usable on windows... several
programs work reasonably well. This is a very nice thing and goes beyond
the "DE scope"
Tos um up, I would definitively accept advertising, we need that, but
care has to be taken in what to advertise.
I would NOT use the term Desktop Environment AT ALL. It is something too
closely related to GNOME, KDE. As I mentioned earlier, many people would
fail to accept older macos 10.0/10.1 or even MS windows 2000 as a viable
DE.
my personal idea, very vaguely, would be to stress
-overall user experience ("hinting at a desktop with other terms) and
thus pointing at our unusual but interesting UI style (not just the
widgets, the programs them selves)
-the ease of coding and developing (even in NeXT time this was a major
seller)
On the website itself, I would put a better emphasis on related projects
like backbone, GAP and etoile, but would not mention them in our
advertising.
the ideas here are by no means complete!
-R
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