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GNUstep could be SO much more. But the interface is stuck in 1993. And the maintainers don't want to do anything to modernize. it. I'd love to switch to a GNUs
by apple4ever 8y ago
GNUstep could be SO much more. But the interface is stuck in 1993. And the maintainers don't want to do anything to modernize. it.
I'd love to switch to a GNUstep powered OS (maybe with Ubuntu underneath), but its just not good enough yet.
- zapzupnz 8y agoI wouldn't say they don't want to modernise it. They have a theming engine that can use some other frameworks' GUIs to provide theming (like GTK+, Windows, and probably Cocoa) — but most distributions only have a hideously ancient version of GNUstep that lacks the theme engine. I'm with you on the general idea that the GNUstep developers don't seem to be in a rush to take GNUstep out of the shadows and let it be a glory on Linux. More aggressively imitating Cocoa, adopting Swift and filling in some of its holes on Linux, and abandoning the wholly useless enterprise of source-level compatibility with the OPENSTEP APIs of the 1990s… these would be good. And distros not having the old versions, too!