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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st Dec 2008 14:07 UTC, submitted by Ian Dumych

There are lots of interesting desktop environments for X, other than the big ~~two~~ three GNOME, KDE, and Xfce. One of those is Etoile, a highly modular and leightweight environment based on GNUstep. Etoile is entirely project and document based, which means that you focus on your documents, and not on applications. Earlier this month - and we missed it, my apologies - the project released version 0.4.0.

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Native Applications

by Dave_K on Mon 1st Dec 2008 16:23 UTC

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2005-11-16

It does indeed look beautiful. I might well have a play with it, especially since there's a live CD available.

But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for a decent selection of native applications. Let alone applications that'll do everything I require in a desktop OS.

Mixing in non-native applications from other desktop environments would render it virtually worthless.

Another interesting project that I fear will never turn into something that I can actually use.

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RE: Native Applications

by spikeb on Mon 1st Dec 2008 20:21 in reply to "Native Applications"

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2006-01-18

it is a lot of fun to program for (using objective C), so native apps might be forthcoming - i know i plan on writing a bunch

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