Re: www.gnustep.org should change screenshot

[David Chisnall]

On 4 Dec 2010, at 08:31, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Riccardo Mottola <multix@ngi.it> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I don't think the first screenshot should point to a development
>> application. It should point to user stuff.
> 
> At least please give a counter-thesis.

I agree with Riccardo here (it does happen sometimes!).  The very first thing 
that we want to show people is what they can do with GNUstep.  Later, we want 
to show them how they can do these things.  Screenshots of themed user apps 
show the what, shots of Gorm show the how.

Most importantly, if we show developer apps then it gives the impression that 
developer apps are all that we have - that GNUstep is used solely for 
developing tools for developing with GNUstep.  There are a lot of open source 
projects that are like this, and we don't want to be lumped into that category.

Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:
> 
> Also think that the purpose of the project should not so directly be
> creating a free version of Cocoa but something that will survive on
> its own and have the Cocoa cloning as a supporting secondary purpose.

I think this is also important.  In Étoilé, we use quite a few things that are 
GNUstep-specific.  We want to reassure people that GNUstep is a capable 
development environment in its own right, not just a Cocoa clone.

David

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