The popularity of OS X among geeks in recent years has led to a lot more people discovering OpenStep through Cocoa. GNUstep provides a much-needed Free Software alternative, as David Chisnall explains.
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Member since:2006-10-08
I have to apologize for not beeing direct. You wrote:
"WindowMaker is a strictly a Window Manager and GNUstep is a development environment. Lots of people confuse the two. So, no, the topic isn't wrong."
That's completely right and stated this way in section 2 of the artice. What i referred to using "wrong topic" was the topic of my post. I didn't want to discuss "Pros and Cons", I wanted to say a few words on the WindowMaker window manager and how he benefits from the concepts of GNUstep.
"GNUstep has made a great deal of progress over the last few years and has been getting better and better... the thing we need most is interested developers who are willing to help us make GNUstep into something really great."
At least I have to admit that I consider GNUstep (rather than Gtk) for one of my next software projects. It's well designed for software that professionals will use, so the addition of tons of "eye candy" isn't needed.
Member since:2005-08-07
I thought you were referring to the name of the article. 
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2005-08-07
PS. Wrong topic; should read out "WindowMaker"
Time to correct a few misconceptions here....
WindowMaker is a strictly a Window Manager and GNUstep is a development environment. Lots of people confuse the two. So, no, the topic isn't wrong.
WindowMaker is the official window manager of the GNUstep project and offers the best integration with GNUstep applications. Also, contrary to popular belief, WindowMaker does NOT use any of GNUstep. It uses a library called WiNGs (WiNGS is Not GNUstep) to look like NeXTstep/OpenStep.
This is mainly because, at the time WindowMaker was written, much of GNUstep's gui library wasn't completed. This is currently not the case. GNUstep's gui (AppKit) library is completely functional, as is base (Foundation). The project also has a fully functional clone of InterfaceBuilder called Gorm.
GNUstep has made a great deal of progress over the last few years and has been getting better and better... the thing we need most is interested developers who are willing to help us make GNUstep into something really great.
Later,
Greg Casamento
Maintainer: GNUstep Gorm and GUI.