Various discussion

[Lundberg, Johannes]

Hi

In a long I haven't used any of the desktop GUI apps that come with GNUstep. I revisited Gemas.app homepage and saw that it now has auto-complete so I decided to give it a try. I've been fighting with emacs for a while but the auto-complete support for Obj-C isn't all that good and this is an absolute necessity for a modern editor.

My setup is
Lubuntu 14.04

Install gnustep with apt-get to get all dependencies

Uninstalled gnustep\* with apt-get and installed from source

Version:
libgnustep-base.so.1.24
libgnustep-gui.so.0.24
libgnustep-back-024
libcairo2-dev 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1

Gemas 0.4

ProjectCenter 0.62

NSMenuInterfaceStyle Windows95

Result:

ProjectCenter/Gemas

- I couldn't set Gemas at editor in ProjectCenter. It says it can't find it and crash. I had to edit the plist manually.

- Auto-compete doesn't seem to work. Do I need any additional tools/configuration?

- Everytime I launch projectcenter a non-existing project called PCExample is opened. I had to remove the entry from the plist to get it to disappear.

UI

- In all scrollviews the rendering gets messed up, can't see content unless I click on an item.

- Can not use arrow keys to scroll up/down in list view.

- Fonts seemed to be rendered smaller than in Lubuntu desktop. For example an 11 pt size font has difference size in GNUstep's preferences and openbox's preferences.

- When using windows style menu the y position of mouse click gets translated by menu height. That is the click is registered about 1 cm above the mouse cursor. (in ProjectCenter with silver theme, haven't tested other apps).

- Whenever I press an arrow key in ProjectCenter editor to scroll up/down the mouse cursor changes from line to arrow. Quite annoying.

Any ideas about these problems?

For Gemas developer:

I like where Gemas is heading. Good job! Hope to get auto-completion to work and then real time error check would be very nice :) It's a shame there hasn't been any alternative on non-OSX platforms that has the functions a modern editor should have but maybe we can be there soon :)

Best regards

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Johannes Lundberg

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