GNUstep Project Gets New Chief Maintainer 129
stivi writes "OSNews is reporting that Gregory Casamento has accepted the position of GNUstep Maintainer. Adam Fedor, former GNUstep leader writes: 'After over 15 years of being the Chief Maintainer for GNUstep, I've found I have too many other responsibilities to devote as much time to GNUstep as is necessary. I still plan on contributing to GNUstep in the future in a lower capacity.' Gregory has been a prolific developer for GNUstep for the past seven years and is currently the maintainer for Gorm (the graphical interface designer) and the GUI library. I think he will make a great choice to lead GNUstep in the future. New plans for change have been set up already. Thank you Adam for the past, congratulations Gregory to the future."
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- write an article in TeXview.app
- select a word, hit = and get a definition / thesaurus entry while writing it
- create a drawing in Altsys Virtuoso which needs an equation in a label
- copy the proper equation out of your
- paste in the equation into Altsys Virtuoso
- invoke the Service TeX eq -> eps in Altsys Virtuoso and get a
- select the address of the journal receiving the article
- invoke Poste.app to bring up a window from you you can print an envelope to mail it for submission
The environment affords similar integration w/ Mail.app as well if desired.
The commercial developer Nova Mind, http://www.nova-mind.com/ [nova-mind.com] uses it to get a Windows version of their Mac OS X software.
And for those who say just use Mac OS X (I do at work):
(from: http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=4190&cid=6359
- monolithic main menu bar w/ wasted blank space between the menus and the (optional) information / settings menus for Airport &c.
- verbose Mac-style shortcut descriptions w/ arcane symbols instead of concise NeXT-style shortcuts (in NeXTstep, Save is indicated by ``s'' and Save as by ``S'', no Command symbol (it's assumed---Control only as a modifier is reserved for personal shortcuts / Unix-use), Shift by case)
- Print, Hide, Services and Quit are no longer top-level menus where they made more sense and were quicker to get at.
- scroll bars on wrong side (this can't be fixed by theming 'cause Carbon apps are responsible for deciding where scroll bars are placed
- no Webster.app (this has since been addressed w/ 10.4), Digital Librarian / Shakespeare or Oxford's Book of Quotations --- in NeXTstep this meant one was guaranteed to have Command = _not_ used in an app so it'd be available for looking things up in Websters
- Pantone colour library --- used to be this was licensed w/ the system, now each graphic app which needs it has to pay a license, and one _doesn't_ get them in one's office apps (major negative for adhering to corporate identity programs where such is specced)
- vertical menu
- pop-up main menu --- this is wonderfully fast / efficient / elegant. For me, ``Punch'' in Altsys Virtuoso is pretty much a gesture, right-click, down a bit, then straight over and release
- repositionable sub-menus --- no need for inscrutable button bars, and one can make a given command easy to get to as needed (when doing lots of envelopes I tear off the poste.app Services menu, put it in the bottom left corner, then an envelope is merely a selection, mouse move to bottom left, click, shift right to the print menu (also aligned on the bottom edge for this) click away. (takes longer to say / type than to do)
William
(who really should save all that and put it on a web page or something instead of typing it up each time --- check my rants at http://groups.google.com/ [google.com] in comp.sys.next.advocacy to see if I forgot anything...)
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The Knight with the Chicken is going to be very busy in the computer industry one of these days.
Etoile-buntu? (Score:3, Interesting)
The catch is, that integrating this stuff is a bit more work than your average
Fact is, I think that we'd start seeing more apps show up for GNUStep if we had a supported reference platform. You know, give developers some place where they could port their apps over from Mac OS X in peace without having to worry about spending "hacking day" compiling software rather than writing it.