"Michael P. Soulier" <[email protected]>
writes:

Hi Michael:

> You'd think a default app wrapper that does something intelligent
> would be a basic requirement of this framework.

I guess you can make an appwrapper for xdg-open and set it as the
default editor in GWorkspace.

> Not yet, I'm trying to understand how a new user would ever get this
> far without simply giving up and moving to Gnome or KDE. I'm not
> trying to offend, but the environment is hardly friendly to the new
> user, even one like myself who's used *nix for decades.

The problem is not with GNUstep based apps (since they are app bundles),
but with X app integration. There was talk a long time ago about
supporting .desktop files:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2004-05/msg00014.html

Maybe the idea should be revived.

>  It's not exactly out-of-the-box friendly, and that's likely due to
> the Debian packaging. Unfortunately I couldn't get the source packages
> to build.

Agreed. However, this is up to the distros to setup a user friendly
GNUstep environment.


> And I seem to be stuck with them...

What problems do you have building GNUstep?

> but it looks like I'm a victim of poor Debian package maintenance.

Yes.

> Maybe until I want to mount a USB stick without a shell command...

Here is a dockapp:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmudmount/

Charles

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