Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 22:33 UTC
The releases just keep on coming, don't they? The GNUstep live CD has been updated "The GNUstep live CD contains a lot of software for GNUstep, a free implementation of the OPENSTEP framework (which was also the base as Cocoa in Mac OS X)." The GNUstep page can tell you more about GNUstep itself.
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Member since:2006-02-04
RE[2]: It's ugly but efficient
by heron on Fri 4th Apr 2008 19:16
in reply to "RE: It's ugly but efficient"
Member since:2005-08-07
Etoile is using vanilla GNUstep. It uses a feature called GSAppKitUserBundles to add the themes to GNUstep. Also a more integrated theme system is being developed as part of the core of GNUstep.
On a subjective point. I don't think "eye stabbingly ugly" is appropriate. Different people have different preferences. I'm somewhat biased, but I, personally, don't like GNOME or KDE's looks very much. They seem to be trying to imitate the Mac, but with none of the elegance that underlies the look. They want the look, but they don't care about what really makes a make cool and that's the API.
Being pretty is one thing... being elegant is quite another. GNUstep wants to be both. 
GJC
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2006-01-23
I really wish that they'd find someone to re-design the look of it and get Apple to work with them on some enhancements so that the same developer could deploy on various Linux and BSD based operating systems without trouble and enjoy the efficiency of Objective-C and the NeXTStep/OpenStep frameworks.
The language starts out as unusual but it combines a lot of good points into one language and the inbuilt behaviours of the frameworks make the job easier than, say, Microsoft's MFC, where you end up using an OO-flavoured library and still have to do the work to make it truly object-oriented.