Re: First Impressions of GNUStep

[cehardin]

On Sunday, Jun 15, 2003, at 12:45 Pacific/Honolulu, Charles Philip Chan 
wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:39:05 +0200
> Raphael Bosshard <whistler@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
> > - Where is the taskbar, dammit? It's quite a change if you are used to
> > Gnome (in my case) or KDE. Heck, even OSX has a "taskbar" these days.
>
> GNUstep doesn't use a taskbar- it uses a dock like in OS X. So far
> people have been using the one in Window Maker, but since GNUstep is
> moving away from Window Maker, the dock needs to be reimplemented. 
> Maybe
> some one can update the dock app that was available in the early days 
> of
> GNUstep? In the mean time you can use Window Maker.

I am doing just that! http://www.sf.net/projects/gsdock
It's basicaly an OS X like dock but on the right side of the screen and 
has next tiles.  The idea is to automatically take in all the AppIcons 
and place them into the dock. (Gonna need support for this in GNUstep 
eventually, such as the fabled GSAppOwnsAppIcon default).  The tiles 
shrink as more are added so it can take in as many as you want.  It 
will also have a recycler built in.  Of course you will be able to drag 
things into and outta the dock, unlike WindowMaker.

> >
>
> A certain amount of eye candy that conveys information such as the
> animated icons in NeXTstep is good. Other than that it is just waste
> resources and distract you from your work. You are right about the
> icons though- we need better one. It would be nice if we can just use
> the NeXTstep icons by default, but there maybe copyright issues.


I have icons I  made!  I am willing to make more if anyone's 
interested!  some examples are attached:

FileIcon_c.tif
Description: application/applefile

FileIcon_mp3.tif
Description: application/applefile

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