Re: project goal Re: Release schedule

[Dennis Leeuw]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Jason Clouse wrote:
> > On 2003-04-12 12:17:20 +0000 Philippe C.D. Robert <philippe.robert@gmx.net> 
> > wrote:
> > > I do not think GNUstep will ever be able to catch up with Gnome or KDE as 
> > > pure X11
> > > desktop solution ever.
> >
> > Just a crazy thought--would anyone be interested in writing a backend for 
> > Fresco (http://www.fresco.org/)?  Fresco seems to be in desperate need of a 
> > desktop environment/user applications--KDE and GNOME seem to be absent 
> > there--and GNUstep already has some fine user applications (GNUMail, GORM, 
> > Workspace, Terminal) that would be beneficial to giving Fresco a leg up.  
> > Furthermore, it seems to be a wide open opportunity to capture a new 
> > "market" if you'll pardon the borrowed phrase.
>
> Hi,
>
> back in the days when it was called Berlin I (and I guess some others too)
> had this idea too, but I never found the time to play with. It would
> certainly be interesting to see GNUstep working w/ it, even if it was some
> kind of 'academic scenario'. Also I wonder how stable Fresco is, as it seems
> to be kind of 'slowly moving project' too :-)

I have had the same with Berlin... the ideas are great, but the project is
slow... On the otherhand creating a Fresco/GNUstep system might be the
killer idea that helps both projects.
Maybe this is filling a gap. It might be possible that both slow but
steady growing projects can fill the gap of a desktop/developer integrated
system that was left open after NeXT.

Dennis


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