Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 12 Oct 2009, at 23:21, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Germán Arias wrote:
> > El lun, 12-10-2009 a las 19:33 +0200, Michael Thaler escribió:
> > > But so far my experiences weren't that great. I tried to create a  
> > > project with project center. No icons are shown at all, so Project  
> > > Center is not useable.
> >
> > Well with stable release (startup 0.23.0) ProjectCenter and Gorm are
> > usable. I have many projects made with these. But you are using  
> > GNUstep
> > from SVN, and of course there are bugs.
> They do work also from svn trunk.... I'm using them right now.
> > NSX11HandleWindowDecoration = YES. But today I tested this with  
> > 0.23.0
> > startup, and does not work. Maybe it's a bug or my memory fails.
> it is GS*
>
> If you run systempreferences, you will find both the preference for  
> letting X11 or GNUstep handle the windowmaker (the cited one) and  
> also GSSuppressAppIcon which inhibits the cretion of the small  
> application icons. You need then another tracker, on windows the  
> taskbar works fine, the same goes for mwm.
>
> IN the long term you might want to extend GSUseWMTaskBar for your  
> windowmanager perhaps?


GNUstep has quite a lot of defaults for adjusting behavior (and we are  
not averse to adding more to control interaction with other non- 
gnustep software) such as how manus are drawn and whether app icons  
are shown.

It seems to me that a lot of issues people have are with the fact that  
there are no native packages with themes/defaults set up to integrate  
GNUstep with the native look.

Perhaps people who like a a particular look could record what they  
found out about how to achieve it so that people can see and download  
it from the website or wiki.
You could have a screenshot (so people can see what it looks like),  
and a file containing the defaults settings to reproduce the  
appearance (and a theme bundle for the more ambitious works).  People  
could then download the file and/or bundle, and could install for  
themselves.

Really, it would be nice if people who like a particular look could  
provide that look for other people to enjoy.

Going back to Greg's idea of improving the website ... it would be  
good to provide a repository for people to provide this sort of thing  
for view and download.