| > I am absolutely blown away to have the author of AppImage (Probono) partnering with me :-) > which eventually brought me to making FuryBSD for a short time. Ahaaaa. I did not realise that. Perhaps you should mention that in a FAQ or something? I think tying the different projects together like that would make it clear there is a quite considerable bit of history in here. > I am very much looking forward to seeing the cool things we can do together in 2026! Kudos for the positivity. I left the GNUstep community a year or so back, after the admins got angry with me for daring to have opinions about the project that differ from theirs. I think that as well as (1) a set of development libraries, it's also (2) a quite impressive set of apps, (3) an app packaging format, and perhaps most importantly (4) a quite complete desktop environment. They only seem to care about #1 and regard points 2-4 as annoying distractions. For what it's worth, I know of two other active, current GNUstep-based desktop environments, which have slightly different focuses. 1. Ondrej Florian's GSDE: https://onflapp.github.io/gs-desktop/index.html I've written a bit about this: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/06/two_new_debian_deskto... I had great difficulty getting it to build on Debian 13, but I should try again at some point. 2. Sergii Stoian's NEXTSPACE: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace Slightly more mature but Stoian's been distracted recently by Russia invading his country, so it's not seen much work of late. |
We do largely operate outside of GNUstep. Now we approach it like let us be the desktop, let them be the core libs. My take is I do think GNUstep should be marketed as more of a cross platform solution to build applications than anything else. You are more than welcome to come discuss ideas with us at Gershwin anytime.
GSDE (Screenshot.app), more so NextSpace a lot of things do not work with a lot of modifications on FreeBSD for example and I found the build systems unexpectedly difficult. I am a fan of the efforts otherwise and will try to make Gershwin components like WindowManager.app something they could use if they want to make use of in the future. I think each project has a place, and a role in promoting GNUstep. I wish they each had Live ISO's with installers. There is also agnostep now that looks promising by the way. https://github.com/pcardona34/agnostep