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Honestly I remember trying gnustep, it was ugly. I can't even emphasis how terrible it looked from a ux/UI perspective compared to literally every other desktop
by paulie_a 8y ago
Honestly I remember trying gnustep, it was ugly. I can't even emphasis how terrible it looked from a ux/UI perspective compared to literally every other desktop.
- peatmoss 8y agoYup, they were doing the hard part of making application frameworks and consistent APIs, and were always deferring window dressing. By contrast, old school FVWM and later Enlightenment were pushing limits of themability without really building anything of substance beyond literal window dressing. No reason GNUStep couldn’t be as beautiful as anything else. Oddly, I find the NeXT aesthetic oddly fresh looking today. I was struck by how good it looked when I took a trip to the Living Computer Museum and played on their NeXT cube. What’s old is new I guess. Still, not supporting themes from the getgo was definitely a reason GNUStep didn’t get traction early on, I’d
- pjmlp 8y agoI stood in one FOSDEM presentation about 10 years ago, where they spent a couple of hours speaking and demoing part of it, but it never seemed to have moved beyond those presentations.
- lproven 8y agoIt looks just like NeXTstep. IMHO, i.e. like the most beautiful, elegant GUI ever designed.
- paulie_a 8y agoNext step in my experience was crashing constantly and ugly. It was the basis for macos. Which permanently turned me away from apple products in the 90s. Rebooting a frozen computer should not require literally pulling the plug.