Re: Comments on the website from people on twitter...

[William F. Adams]

On Thursday, August 8, 2013 10:19:26 PM UTC-4, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Also, regarding the "Dream of GNUstep" if you could tell me what everyone 
> else is dreaming 
>it would be helpful.  Obviously all of us on GNUstep are not dreaming the same 
>thing 
>everyone else seems to be. 

I want a replacement for Macromedia Freehand / Altsys Virtuoso which doesn't 
leave me beholden to Adobe. That's a PostScript-oriented vector-drawing program 
w/ an elegant interface. Bonus if it supports creating vector brushes like 
Creaturehouse Expression. Even better if it'd support METAPOST and allow one to 
switch between drawing and coding.

I want a replacement for Notebook.app --- bonus if it supports inking and 
bitmap editing / sketching.

I want a replacement for Lotus Improv which has undo and the nice 3D graphs 
from Informix WingZ.

I want TeXshop (which is my replacement for TeXview.app) to ``just compile''.

I want LaTeXiT.app (which affords the TeX eq -> eps Service from TeXview.app) 
to ``just compile''.

I want the programming tools to be so great that someone is able to easily 
create a GNUstep front-end for LyX.

I want Services to work _everywhere_ and to be able to display a .pdf (or .eps) 
and be confident it'll print (I guess Display GhostScript is gone? I find that 
aspect of the project confusing).

I need to assemble a system which works on a portable machine w/ a Wacom 
digitizer (supporting pressure input would be nice) and daylight-viewable 
display which can replace my current system (a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 
running Windows XP Tablet PC edition, Autodesk Sketchbook, FutureWave 
SmartSketch, Macromedia FreeHand, WinTeXshell, EverNote, Lotus Improv, &c.).

William