Re: IA: regular-gnustep.iso LiveCD (stable builds available)

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:10:14AM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> > I did install on a partition and i do have a few technical questions.
> Thank you, Dan.  My silly overengineering with r8168 driver has
> been sorted out, and here are the images built on stable branch
> in addition to the ever-changing Sisyphus based ones:
> http://en.altlinux.org/Starterkits/gnustep
That's great! It makes me a little proud to see screenshots of programs 
I developed or fixed myself inside a finished distribution! Warms your 
heart slightly....

Did you package GWorkspace? I miss it from the screenshots...

And BatteryMonitor?

perhaps you could add a list of packaged apps. The menus look 
impressive, you must have packaged a lot of stuff!
> ---
>
> Reactions were varying from "gorgeous!" to "you won't setup
> an office girl with this" to "you won't sell it unless it's slick
> and pretty out-of-box" (as if I was selling these images in the
> first place, heh).
Different opinions are normal. Someone wants something super-sleek, 
someone wants something classic and traditional. Otherwise we wouldn't 
have so many desktop environments, discussion for themes, etc etc.

Have you packaged SystemPreferences and a couple of themes?
> Maybe some sort of user experience "bootstrap" is due, any kind
> of advice including "how could you miss the $URL" is much welcome
> (I'm a seasoned WM user but rather newbie to GS).
Well, bugzilla says zarro boogs :) )

But the most improtant stuff is probably for you:
1) improve and complete themes
2) improve and complete existing apps
3) new apps

You deliver a GNUstep environment after all and we know it is sadly 
incomplete or buggy...

Riccardo