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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. GN
by 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 agoThat'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 agoGNUStep 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...