This may not be the sort of functionality that the GS devs are considering, but following recent discussions, I thought I would ask...
GNUstep contains most of the components needed to build up a complete desktop Linux distribution: window manager, desktop, launcher, terminal, calculator, plain text and rich text editors, image viewers, etc.
The main 3 things missing, it seems to me, are:
* an office suite
* a web browser
* a chat program (cf. Pidgin, not IRC)
Ubuntu has taken an interesting direction in providing Unity-integrated versions of such apps: they have written plugins for the off-the-shelf LibreOffice and Firefox programs to cause them to display Unity menu bars.
Whereas I realise it would not aid API compatibility, I wondered if it might be viable to examine these plugins and rewrite them to provide GNUstep-style menus etc. so that they integrated with the rest of the GNUstep desktop?
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