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I think you'd be one of the few. http://www.gnustep.org/images/full-screenshot1.png http://www.gnustep.org/images/full-screenshot1.png Why is the services men

I think you'd be one of the few. http://www.gnustep.org/images/full-screenshot1.png http://www.gnustep.org/images/full-screenshot1.png Why is the services menu popping up on top but not next to the services element in the list? What's the difference between the menu dock things on the top right and the bottom left, and why isn't it obvious? I love how the "25.54GB free" text is just floating about randomly in the file viewer. I can see the pixels in the gradient on the recycle symbol at the bottom right. http://www.gnustep.org/images/full-screenshot2.png http://www.gnustep.org/images/full-screenshot2.png In this one, why are the docks eating up so much screen real estate? On the bottom dock, I see two of the same yin-yang icon w/ squiggly, how am I supposed to differentiate? Nah, I think GNUStep's appearance is provably horrid.

jmillikin 16y ago
I think the squiggly yin-yang is a "no icon" placeholder; presumably the user knows which is which. > Nah, I think GNUStep's appearance is provably horrid. GNUStep is the library; it doesn't have an appearance. You're objecting to the NeXTStep theme, which is designed to imitate the now 20-years-old NeXT OS. You can see a screenshot of NeXT at < http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/NeXTSTEP_desktop.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/NeXTSTEP_deskt... > Keep in mind that the main goal of GNUStep is to provide compatibility for a long-obsolete spec, so naturally the applications it runs are not up to modern standards. It's no different from Win95 applications running in Wine.
- rbanffy 16y ago
  > to provide compatibility for a long-obsolete spec I believe contemporary Mac users would disagree about the obsoleteness of the spec. There is a lot of NeXT in OSX.
  - jmillikin 16y ago
    That's so, but modern Mac applications can't run in GNUStep; Apple has added too many new APIs which aren't covered by the OpenStep standard.
    - rbanffy 16y ago
      GNUStep is trying to catch up. http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Writing_portable_code#Porting_from_Cocoa_or_OPENSTEP_.28NS.2A.29_to_GNUstep http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Writing_portable_code#Port...

jmillikin 16y ago

I think the squiggly yin-yang is a "no icon" placeholder; presumably the user knows which is which. > Nah, I think GNUStep's appearance is provably horrid. GNUStep is the library; it doesn't have an appearance. You're objecting to the NeXTStep theme, which is designed to imitate the now 20-years-old NeXT OS. You can see a screenshot of NeXT at < http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/NeXTSTEP_desktop.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/NeXTSTEP_deskt... > Keep in mind that the main goal of GNUStep is to provide compatibility for a long-obsolete spec, so naturally the applications it runs are not up to modern standards. It's no different from Win95 applications running in Wine.

rbanffy 16y ago
> to provide compatibility for a long-obsolete spec I believe contemporary Mac users would disagree about the obsoleteness of the spec. There is a lot of NeXT in OSX.
- jmillikin 16y ago
  That's so, but modern Mac applications can't run in GNUStep; Apple has added too many new APIs which aren't covered by the OpenStep standard.
  - rbanffy 16y ago
    GNUStep is trying to catch up. http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Writing_portable_code#Porting_from_Cocoa_or_OPENSTEP_.28NS.2A.29_to_GNUstep http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Writing_portable_code#Port...