Re: DPRK's OS leak and GWorkspace

[Maxthon Chan]

Well I checked and I am fooled by the looks. It is still normal Linux 
packaging, but they just rolled their Apple-looking KFinder shell and 
recognised app bundles (and only app bundles) as KDE Desktop apps.

What a bummer… However I still wonder whether clang’s -framework and -F 
switches work under Linux...

> On Apr 8, 2015, at 15:02, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Maxthon Chan wrote:
>> From the leaked DPRK’s Red Star Linux 3.0, which is probably a fork of 
>> Fedora, I found an interesting thing: they packaged KDE apps in the 
>> Apple-styled bundles. Maybe this means that we can coax other Linux 
>> distributions’ ld.so into doing similar things as well?
> 
> It is interesting in the sense that they are doing the opposite of what most 
> distribution do with us: they split our bundles.
>> 
>> However it hinted me if we can lift some knowledge from it - like how they 
>> made Apple-styled bundles work under Linux - for the use of Workspace and 
>> GNUstep project in general.
>> 
>> I am downloading the leaked ISO to further investigate this situation, 
>> including rooting, possibility to change package sources, as well as 
>> building GNUstep on it. I will also inspect how their apps are linked as it 
>> can be useful for gnustep-make and xcodebuild-ng packages.
>> 
> 
> Perhaps we should enhance our Korean support, be it North our South.
> I don't think we have anything native in GS to enter Hangeul, but neither we 
> do have for Hiragana, Katakana or Kanji.
> 
> Riccardo
> 
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