Re: Extremely poor quality of GNUStep applications

[Gregory Casamento]

Zhang,

2011/4/23 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing <zhangweiwu@realss.com>:
>
> I exposed the problem, and was shot by ignorance.

I'm sorry you feel this way.  I, however, believe the ignorance was
not on our side.  When there is little or nothing which can be done to
fix applications which this project does not maintain, your initial
discussion means nothing.

> The problem in essence is
> bad user experience. It is said to be not the problem of gnustep.org as it
> never intended to deliver an experience, and now is being discussed of a
> solution. (??)

Certainly randomly searching for apps and trying to build them doesn't
qualify as an "environment."

GNUstep is a development environment, Etoile is the user environment
and additional development tools built on top of it.  That is our
"experience."   I apologize if your rather cursory research on the
subject didn't reveal this to you in spite of the fact that this is
stated on the Etoile website and also on the wiki:
http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/%C3%89toil%C3%A9

> Most audience (99.6% according to retail market analysis in China) don't
> speak of their problem and simply walk-away to competitor, while gnustep had
> been discussing with curiosity internally why users walked away (I found
> this discussion by checking this mailing list archive).

A more productive use of time would have been to go over GNUstep and
GAP apps which are currently being supported.

Unfortunately, as I have repeatedly said, there's nothing we can do
for apps we don't maintain.  I'm still at a loss for what you are
expecting of us.

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