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Re: Plans for ahead


From: Michael P. Soulier
Subject: Re: Plans for ahead
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:41:15 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On 03/12/15 Gregory Casamento said:

> Heh.  GNUstep's look is UGLY.   The fact that I was a developer on
> NeXT machines 20 years ago and that I am the maintainer should add
> some weight to my opinion.  People are turned off by the default look
> of the framework out of the box.  Period.   As for a desktop
> environment, I answered that above.   Apps will come if we make our
> framework attractive and enticing enough for people to actually want
> to use it.  Yes, we have to have enough apps to attract users as well,
> so it's a circular relationship, but thus far the ugly out of the box
> look has done nothing but bring us grief.

My main problem with it was that it was pretty much useless to me out of
the box. It required serious manual customization before I could use the
GNUstep environment to do any of my regular work.

Mike

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