Re: Look and Feel

[Jesse Ross]

> And I, bored of tons of words about (unexisting) desktops and very 
> tired for years of work on a (existing) application, give up.
> GWorkspace is looking for a new maintainer.

GWorkspace is awesome -- and your efforts aren't in vain! Already your 
hard work is being paid off on the LiveCD, which does exist and has 
pulled people like me into the mix.

I think a bunch of people on the list is just trying to get a clear 
focus on the thing that we are building and contributing to -- there 
are many who want to see GNUstep given a proper home in a desktop 
environment. Applications (especially yours) are an essential part of 
that.

A lot of people have basically said, "why don't we stop talking 
theoretically and start building applications?" I spend my time talking 
on this list because I can't really build applications -- I can and am 
working on icons and themes, and I try to contribute to the community 
by coming up with application ideas, or usability ideas, or ways to 
guide and direct a desktop environment.

I would like to see something we can package up, give to people on the 
street (or wherever) and have them be completely wowed. If it's 
agreeing to make the LiveCD (something that does currently exist and 
has some market penetration, and the GNUstep name behind it) the main 
distro, fine -- I really want us to be unified in our endeavors. Maybe 
that's being too optimistic, but I think that we're a small enough 
community that it really is doable.

I can understand how you're getting discouraged by all this. I'm really 
sorry and hope you'll reconsider leaving the project.


J.