Gregory John Casamento just announced the release of Gorm 1.0 on the gnustep mailing lists. Gorm is the GNUstep graphical interface builder which let you easily create GUI applications.
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GNUstep could have been a really good desktop environment (well, I know, strictly speaking GNUstep is no desktop environment) two or three years ago.
Guess what people said two or three years ago ? the same thing. GNUstep progress slowly, but it progress. As long as there is contributors.
Nowadays there simply is no need for it in the face of the very fast evolving GNOME and KDE desktop environments. Even XFCE is moving ahead in a very fast pace. I suspect GNUstep could be interesting to those using Mac OS X. But hey, that's a dwindling minory ...
That's what you say. But not everybody is happy with GNOME and KDE. As you say, other projects like XFCE still gather enthusiast users. There's perhaps a reason..
Now, GNUstep is not _only_ a possible fundation for a desktop -- it's also a cross-platform environment, and many persons are currently interested in GNUstep because of that (OSX devs wanting to port apps on Windows, Linux).
So there's more in GNUstep than just a linux desktop -- it's first and foremost an incredible programming toolkit, and Gorm is one of the Best RAD tool I know of. Secondly, it's also very interesting for its crossplatform possibilities. And its compatibility with Cocoa.
The "GNUstep desktop" that you can have by using GNUstep apps together is something that I personally like a lot, but that's not the only thing GNUstep do..
Nevertheless, a "GNUstep desktop" has a totally different "feel" than what GNOME and KDE propose. Instead of monolithic apps, you have many small apps that actually *cooperate* together easily, via for example the service menu. That's why I think there's still an interest in developing a desktop based on GNUstep (see http://www.etoile-project.org).
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GNUstep could have been a really good desktop environment (well, I know, strictly speaking GNUstep is no desktop environment) two or three years ago. Nowadays there simply is no need for it in the face of the very fast evolving GNOME and KDE desktop environments. Even XFCE is moving ahead in a very fast pace.
I suspect GNUstep could be interesting to those using Mac OS X. But hey, that's a dwindling minory ...