OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/17882/Gorm_1_2_1_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:25:52 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Gorm http://osnews.com/thread?239016 http://osnews.com/thread?239016 Kudos for Gregory Casamento keeping Gorm improving, Gorm is a really neat tool and a cornerstone for GNUstep. It is too bad that ProjectCenter doesn't improve at the rate that Gorm does. Wed, 09 May 2007 23:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Seth Quarrier) Comments code generation and everything? http://osnews.com/thread?239027 http://osnews.com/thread?239027 Is it a true rad tool or do you have to make all the event classes and parameter setting in code yourself? Wed, 09 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (modmans2ndcoming) Comments RE: Gorm http://osnews.com/thread?239086 http://osnews.com/thread?239086 Please enlighten me, is gnustep really used for building serious application? With interface like WindowMaker, I doubt it will be popular in linux. Last time I tried in windows, it's full of problems to compile and run an application.

I like objective-c and nextstep platform very much, but currently I think only macosx-cocoa get it right. Thu, 10 May 2007 04:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Babi Asu) Comments RE: code generation and everything? http://osnews.com/thread?239122 http://osnews.com/thread?239122 It is.

You do not have to make all the event classes or parameter settings in your code, though you are of course free to modify them. Thu, 10 May 2007 10:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ChrisV) Comments RE[2]: Gorm http://osnews.com/thread?239123 http://osnews.com/thread?239123 Window Maker has nothing to do with GNUstep, except that it kinda looks identical, and is the so-called preferred window manager. However, it doesn't make USE of GNUstep.

That said, yes, there are a couple of serious applications. GNUMail is one of them. Another one would be Adun ( http://193.146.190.210:8080/Adun ).

For a reasonable up-to-date list of applications, take a look at http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Category:Applications Thu, 10 May 2007 10:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ChrisV) Comments RE[2]: Gorm http://osnews.com/thread?239143 http://osnews.com/thread?239143 GNUstep on Windows is rather problematic ATM. GNUstep on Posix-compatible platforms is however a completely different issue.

And yes. There is several serious applications written with GNUstep. Thu, 10 May 2007 13:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments No thanks. http://osnews.com/thread?239287 http://osnews.com/thread?239287 Heh. Can't we all stick to the standardized world of GTK and QT in modern Linux GUI design? Things have been going great consistency-wise lately, and I'd hate to see something like this relic from the nineties come back to haunt my desktop. Fri, 11 May 2007 04:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Maciek) Comments RE: No thanks. http://osnews.com/thread?239297 http://osnews.com/thread?239297 1) GNUStep doesn't just run on Linux.
2) Calling GNUStep a relic while implying that GTK is modern is just ... laughable.
3) Objective-C and the GNUStep/Cocoa framework provide an interesting alternative to standard C/C++ frameworks.

On a side note, they really need to make GNUStep more accessible to normal users. More Cocoa compatibility wouldn't hurt either. Fri, 11 May 2007 06:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evangs) Comments RE: No thanks. http://osnews.com/thread?239300 http://osnews.com/thread?239300 Standardized? GTK? You GOT to be joking.

And speaking of a 'modern' design, running GNUstep off a P3-550 with 128M Ram is a breeze. Don't even think of launching KDE on that box. It will crawl to a halt in just a few seconds... Fri, 11 May 2007 07:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ChrisV) Comments Not to mention internationalization .... http://osnews.com/thread?239322 http://osnews.com/thread?239322 I have tried using GnuStep before but it is hopeless in displaying foreign language text, especially Unicode Glyph composition. Hope they remedy this soon. Maybe like they ported their backend to Cairo, they can also adopt Pango for this. Fri, 11 May 2007 13:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dindin) Comments what's wrong with http://osnews.com/thread?239326 http://osnews.com/thread?239326 .net (sarcasm) ;) Fri, 11 May 2007 13:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (matthekc) Comments RE: Not to mention internationalization .... http://osnews.com/thread?239593 http://osnews.com/thread?239593
Maybe like they ported their backend to Cairo, they can also adopt Pango for this.


A Cairo-based backend already exists. Sat, 12 May 2007 09:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ChrisV) Comments RE[2]: Gorm http://osnews.com/thread?239933 http://osnews.com/thread?239933 Gnustep can be very good looking if you use the new Nesedah theme, the theme also have a gtk2 port on xfce-look.org, so you can use gtk and gnustep with the same look and feel. Sun, 13 May 2007 20:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Replaced) Comments