Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-28 Thread Paraplegic Racehorse
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:54:31 +, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: The problem with this is, that gnustep is not useable as a desktop at all right now. For instance, there is no browser, so you have to use Firefox or Konqueror or any other browser of your choice Yep ... I use firefox

Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-26 Thread Michael Thaler
On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My idea of a good desktop follows along the nextstep design and thats it. Did Steve Jobs intend nextstep to be a good citizen of other desktops? I dont think so. I dont know about openstep but it seems that its not a good citizen of

Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-26 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-11-26 21:25:16 +0800 Michael Thaler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And nextstep/openstep is dead for a long time. Without Steve Jobs noone would care for nextstp/openstep at all anymore. Steve Jobs did the right thing. He turned nextstep into

Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 26 Nov 2005, at 13:25, Michael Thaler wrote: On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My idea of a good desktop follows along the nextstep design and thats it. Did Steve Jobs intend nextstep to be a good citizen of other desktops? I dont think so. I dont know about

Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-26 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-11-26 23:54:31 +0800 Richard Frith-Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Nov 2005, at 13:25, Michael Thaler wrote: Yep ... I use firefox within a GNUstep desktop and I find it annoyingly clunky/awkward in comparison with the 'native'

Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-26 Thread Michael Thaler
On Saturday 26 November 2005 16:54, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: Since I think we have easily the best look and feel on large/modern displays, obviously changing the look/feel would be a BAD idea on those systems. However, the rest I agree with ... we need themes for Personally, I don't

Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-26 Thread Nicolas Roard
On 11/26/05, Michael Thaler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 November 2005 16:54, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: Since I think we have easily the best look and feel on large/modern displays, obviously changing the look/feel would be a BAD idea on those systems. However, the rest I

Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-26 Thread Michael Thaler
On Saturday 26 November 2005 20:40, Nicolas Roard wrote: Pretty cool, indeed ! is it a Camaelon theme ? care to make it available ? :-) I should probably update properly the camaelon webpage and put the available themes to download... Yes, it is a Camaelon theme. Of course you can put it on

Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-26 Thread Nicolas Roard
On 11/26/05, Michael Thaler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 November 2005 20:40, Nicolas Roard wrote: Pretty cool, indeed ! is it a Camaelon theme ? care to make it available ? :-) I should probably update properly the camaelon webpage and put the available themes to download...

Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

2005-11-26 Thread Fred Kiefer
Michael Thaler wrote: The problem with this is, that gnustep is not useable as a desktop at all right now. For instance, there is no browser, so you have to use Firefox or Konqueror or any other browser of your choice and gnustep apps and KDE/GNOME apps just don't work very well together