Re: Why is GNUstep less successful than GTK and Qt??

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de wrote:
> 
> On 12 Jun, Christopher Culver wrote:
> > I asked about this on Gentoo Forums. The responses were along the 
> > lines of "It doesn't matter how easy it is to program if it's so 
> > ugly". If GNUstep had a better look, I'm sure more people would come 
> 
> ?? In my eyes GNUstep is one of the least eyesores around. And I don't
> think it's a valid point anyhow: both gtk and qt were incredible ugly in
> their first incarnations.

Agree. :)

> So it's probably because GNUstep just wasn't ready (is it now?) for any
> application, and because objective-c is unknown and nobody is willing to
> learn another language, and so 
> 
> we have no applications to speak of. (could somebody get the lighthouse
> apps out of Sun, _pretty_please_ :-)

Working on it... no kidding.  See sig. ;)


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