Re: Flash Demo

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am Sonntag, 26.06.05 um 15:30 Uhr schrieb Nicolas Roard:

> Hi,
>
> I recorded a flash video demonstrating Gorm and the StepTalk palette:
> http://www.xdev.org/gnustep/demo.html
> (and additionally I recorded it with Camaelon activated, so it's shiny 
> (too shiny
> to be useable some would say ;-) , but perfect for a demo)
>
> With the StepTalk palette you can program entire applications entirely 
> in Gorm --
> It should be interesting for quickly build applications (if you need 
> something fast, you
> can always add a normal ObjC object)
>
> We could perhaps submit that to /., etc (good occasion to talk about 
> GNUstep no ?)

Nicely done indeed, but before we put that on slashdot I think we 
should have a updated Live-CD (Gurkan?) to make the access to GNUstep 
as easy as possible for the novice user. Otherwise the complex 
installation process of GNUstep and the additional libraries could 
easily frustrate (especially if you see how great the demo is and 
everything looks) and shy away the newbies (everybody who knows how to 
make GNUstep / Gorm / StepTalk / Camaelon work won't need that demo 
anyway ...).

So we should have a refreshed Live-CD with the latest releases of all 
the stuff, possibly we should also wait until that pending binary 
compatibility breaking release is out to avoid upcoming hassles on the 
user side. It would also be good to have the .gorm files used in the 
demo available in some folder that accompanies the StepTalk palette on 
the CD.

So for the novice user it would be only five steps:

1. See the demo
2. Be completely blown away by it
3. Download the Live-CD
4. Repeat the Demo
5. Become a new GNUstepper

;-)

> Cheers,
>
> --
> Nicolas Roard
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
>  -Arthur C. Clarke

regards, Lars