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Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep

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Re: Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep

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Post by CRConrad »

malco_2001 wrote: post #39
lproven wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am absolutely blown away to have the author of AppImage (Probono) partnering with me :-) > which eventually brought me to making FuryBSD for a short time. Ahaaaa. I did not realise that. Perhaps you should mention that in a FAQ or something? I think tying the different projects together like that would make it clear there is a quite considerable bit of history in here. > I am very much looking forward to seeing t…

Apologies I am not familiar with how to quote back here. I'll just try to stay in order. I think that is a great suggestion to try to document the history of how Gershwin came to be. I'll put some thought into how to do that soon. We do largely operate outside of GNUstep. Now we approach it like let us be the desktop, let them be the core libs. My take is I do think GNUstep should be marketed as more of a cross platf…

> Apologies I am not familiar with how to quote back here.

Copy the bit you want to quote, paste it into the edit box, type a "> " before it. Old Skool. HTH!

Re: Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep

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Post by lproven »

malco_2001 wrote: post #39
lproven wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am absolutely blown away to have the author of AppImage (Probono) partnering with me :-) > which eventually brought me to making FuryBSD for a short time. Ahaaaa. I did not realise that. Perhaps you should mention that in a FAQ or something? I think tying the different projects together like that would make it clear there is a quite considerable bit of history in here. > I am very much looking forward to seeing t…

Apologies I am not familiar with how to quote back here. I'll just try to stay in order. I think that is a great suggestion to try to document the history of how Gershwin came to be. I'll put some thought into how to do that soon. We do largely operate outside of GNUstep. Now we approach it like let us be the desktop, let them be the core libs. My take is I do think GNUstep should be marketed as more of a cross platf…

> I am not familiar with how to quote back here.

What @crconrad said. Well, that's how I do it, anyway.

I'm fairly used to doing it since quoting is broken in the majority of webmail apps and web fora anyway. Even Gmail removed its selective-quoting feature.

> GSDE (Screenshot.app), more so NextSpace a lot of things do not work with a lot of modifications on FreeBSD

Ahaa! That makes sense.

> I think each project has a place, and a role in promoting GNUstep

Strongly agreed.

> There is also agnostep now that looks promising by the way

Thanks for that -- this one is new to me.

Re: Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep

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Post by malco_2001 »

lproven wrote: post #37
malco_2001 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am absolutely blown away to have the author of AppImage (Probono) partnering with me on a project I started that to be honest I didn't know if it would ever go anywhere. There is no better validation, and this is exactly what the spirit of creating open source solutions is all about for me. I wish I had known now years ago about GNUstep earlier. I took a path of learning FreeBSD deeper instead in 2004 when I starte…

> I am absolutely blown away to have the author of AppImage (Probono) partnering with me :-) > which eventually brought me to making FuryBSD for a short time. Ahaaaa. I did not realise that. Perhaps you should mention that in a FAQ or something? I think tying the different projects together like that would make it clear there is a quite considerable bit of history in here. > I am very much looking forward to seeing t…

Liam also something you may be interested in:

https://youtu.be/DDwLzy8map8

Probono gave a very good presentation today with slides at the GNUstep meeting and we also both did some demos of things like Ladybird, restored spatial mode and more.

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