Quoting Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If GNUstep's Display PostScript will ever work outside of X, I think > that this might well be the first major milestone for Linux on the > desktop. I think many people will agree that the X Window System is one > of the major things holding back Linux from the desktop, with its > idiosyncrasies and brain damage. I'd love to see it vanish forever.
Wouldn't that be nice? NeXTSTep was so lovely and elegant. I wonder what happened to it. ;-> My understanding is that the GNUstep developers have spent a lot of time laying the groundwork for a proper migration to Display Ghostscript eventually, including libraries and development tools implementing the OpenStep specification (Gorm Interface Builder, ProjectCenter, etc.). The idea is to split OpenStep's ApplicationKit into development efforts for a front end (applications and protocols) and back ends (support code call the GNUStep GUI Library that talks to particular graphics systems) -- such that GNUstep's front-end applications can talk to a variety of back-end graphics subsystems, including those running Adobe Display Postscript, those running Adobe Display PDF, _and_ those running GNUStep's Display GhostScript with or without X11 running in conjunction with it. Code is available for the Display GhostScript engine (http://www.gnustep.org/developers/DGS.html), but I'm guessing that it's not yet very far along. -- Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated, cooperatively-managed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] modern-American-English-usage-improvement association. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
