I have to admit I'm nostalgic for the straight forward nature of NS/WM and even some of the less powerful interfaces of the time. Most modern desktop environments including macOS feel like an exercise in evading landmines of unpredictable or inconsistent behavior. On macOS specifically the retrofitting of tabs into applications mostly designed to be SDI has (mixed with some legit SDI apps and full screen stuff) is a mess. Can anyone actually keep track of dozens of windows with maybe dozens more tabs open in each one? Sometimes I find a randomly find a minimized window full of stuff I haven't seen in weeks. Lost in the complexity.
Clearly a hobby/passion project, so, there's no need to justify its existence, but given this point:<p>>I think GNUstep needs a reference implementation of a user-oriented desktop environment.<p>I wonder why he didn't just contribute to Étoilé, since he seems aware of it.
This is awesome and looks very nice, loved the aesthetic. Yet I hope it takes into account modern technology, e.g. either font smoothing or high resolution displays. There's no point in copying the 1990s wholesale.
Wow - As I read the readme and wiki it shows what an impressive amount of effort to pull this all together. This is the closest to OpenStep I’ve ever seen an open source project achieve.
How is this different from Window Maker[1]?<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.windowmaker.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.windowmaker.org/</a>
Reminds me of recently open sourced and revived CDE[1]. They should move to GitHub or GitLab though, for a better visibility.<p>[1] <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv</a>
If I didn't know any better I'd say you were trying to sell me wooden nickels. This looks exactly like Windowmaker :D I like to say that about people's next stations whenever I have the chance
I would really like to see a more modern version of the nextstep style In the same way I'm using fluxbox with my own style that reflects something a little more modern. Just need to figure out how to get proper alpha compositing for a few things. xcompmgr works fine with stuff like konsole for me, but the menu transparencies are not active in fluxbox. still looks very nice. You could do a lot with wmaker styling just get rid of that awful blue gradient and use some more modern fonts (I'm using nerdfonts for a lot) the ui toolkit is kinda blocky/bulky that's all changable though looks a little better on high-dpi
The nostalgia on this is great. I really loved all the useful widgets that you could dock to the side. Mainly for me it was the modem status (way back in the day), battery, and sound controls.
Is this kind of thing open to copyright or patent suits from Apple? I always wonder, with projects like this, how you can get away with doing such a close copy of a commercial OS.
Seems to be largely written in C and Objective C, with Gnustep providing the Foundation Kit.<p>Objective C I've found to be a great and productive language for writing GUI based apps, with the selector based event handling.<p>Nice work by the developer.