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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2006-10-08
Unusual? Not even a little. I'm using WindowMaker (GNUstep's official WM) for almost 10 years now, almost exclusively on my BSD boxes. I've tried many, even KDE, but I always came back. Keyboard support is excellent (special WM and app functions controlled by additional keys on Sun USB type 6 keyboard), window handling is great, and the whole UI system is excitingly fast. There are many nice apps running as dock applets. And yes, I don't care for "inconsistency", I use GNUstep applications along with gv, xmms, gmencoder, acroread4, Gimp, Kino, mplayer, Skype, OpenOffice, K3b or Sylpheed. :-)
To the screenshot linked some posts above: I suggest having the doc icons on the right side 32x32 so they don't consume too much space. Hey, this even matters on a 1400x1050 21" CRT! :-)
In fact, I changed many of the standard settings regarding colors, but it still looks great. Eye candy does not matter to me anyway, because in most cases it consumes ressources and consumes time (accumulated for animations n stuff) which generates an overall feeling of slowlyness. But to those who suggest a more "modern" look: I do understand this point of view. The first impression that users usually get comes from their first view of the GUI. If it doesn't look the way they expect a GUI to look like (many are already spoiled by MICROS~1's ideas of how things are required to look like), they think the software sucks, no matter if it would eventually be perfect for their needs.