Re: The need for an official GNUstep desktop

[Andreas Höschler]

Hello all,

> We need a project that will pull together existing efforts, create an 
> easy installation/update environment, and encourage effort towards 
> helping out on existing apps.  Because those existing apps really do a 
> tremendous job of covering many desktop needs:
>
> GWorkspace + appwrappers

We got it to build on Solaris, but it does not seem to cooperate 
reasonably with Etoile and especially EtoileMenuServer.app (overlapping 
menus)

> Terminal

Is Terminal.app of real use for anyone? We got it built on our Solaris 
machine but at least our version is rather buggy and unusable. "ls" 
list the files but does not show the bash prompt again. I have to press 
enter a few times to get the prompt again. We can't enter '|', it just 
beeps. pico does not work "Sorry, I don't know anything about your 
"linux" terminal" ... So until now, we had to stick to aterm, 
gnome-terminal,... What are we missing?

By the way, if I want to drag a string (path) from my app to 
Terminal.app what pastboard type do I need to use? Is Terminal.app able 
to work as a drag target?

> TextEdit

TextEdit is close to useless for us since it is not able to read and 
write RTF files that can be read or have been written on a Mac with 
Apples TextEdit.app. Obviously the GNustep TextEdit cannot read the mac 
encoded rtf stream. That makes the whole application useless. I know 
not enough about rtf to figure out who's fault that is. I jsut know 
that e.g. german characters don't get through (Mac <--> GNUstep).

Anyone more success with these apps on Solaris in a mixed environment 
with Macs?

Thanks,

  Andreas