Re: Package building

[Johannes Brakensiek]

On 19 Nov 2019, at 13:16, James Carthew wrote:

> I've been toying with NextSpace in a VM. From my experience, if this 
> gains a web browser and network settings panel (mostly for Wifi 
> config), (and gets Debian packages) it could easily replace Mate on my 
> machines. Linux desktop application development is terrible at the 
> moment.

+1

> GNUstep may not be the right answer for me, but I'm open to at least 
> exploring it. NSMacintoshMenuStyle works in NextSpace, and I had 
> Rik.theme built/working properly.

That’s promising to hear. I’m very interested in trying this out on 
Debian/Ubuntu!

> I was hoping to get Etoile WildMenus running as well but ran out of 
> time.

Would be very interesting.

> NextSpace is definitely moving in the right direction. I think the 
> focus on System settings is definitely the way to go. As someone who 
> would like to get a mac-like desktop out of this eventually I'd like 
> to see some of the options ported into SystemPreferences.app just 
> because it's a more mac-like application.

Full ack.

> But I like how NextSpace has the look/feel of NextStep, definitely 
> keep it up. I know the ideal would be to port webkit to gnustep but at 
> this point I'd be happy to just throw firefox into a gnustep window 
> with an application menu.

+1

So I’m very much supporting Sergii in his approach. If his 
developments are going to be compatible with GNUstep upstream, I’d 
love to have/get this packaged and installable for my distribution of 
choice (Debian/Ubuntu) to recommend it to regular users.

Johannes