Re: FOSDEM Booklet (Final)

[Alexis Parseghian]

Hello all,

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:12:21 +0000, MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> I have a slight problem seeing the new booklet. In ViewPDF, it
> is very dark and almost blotchy on the wording. The first draft
> was fine. Does anyone else see this?

I thought it was just me, but yes, the font in the new version was
*heavily* pixellated (no problems with the contrast though). Checked
both in ViewPDF and KPDF. The original one was very smooth indeed.

This said, allow me to delurk now. 

I've come to GNUstep quite recently. Always had a historical interest
in NeXT, I am one of those who dreamed to own a cube when it came out,
but never actually came across one. I've been using Window Maker for
several years now, love the user interface, and that's what gave me a
heads-up to the GNUstep project. The real jump was made when the flash
animation was posted to OSNews & Slashdot... I used to program, a very
long time ago, and that's what I had always been looking for.

Now it's been years since I wrote anything beyond a few lines of perl
or REXX ; and as development is "scratching an itch", with the advance
in refinement and complexity of software projects, I found myself not
needing to scratch much and often finding what I needed already
written by someone else.

Back to GNUstep : I believe it is important for the computing
landscape to have as many different environments as possible. Hence
MacOSX, *BSD, GNU/Linux ; GNOME/KDE/Wmaker/*STEP/... This is the first
reason I support your efforts. The second reason being the *step
concepts and frameworks which, even to a non-developer like me, look
simple and powerful.

I doubt I'll be in a position to contribute code or patches anytime
soon, although I'd love to. On the other hand, I could probably give a
hand with testing, documentation and translation (french <-> english).

Back to lurking mode now. Keep up the good work.