Re: [INFO] NEXTSPACE

[Bertrand Gmail]

Le 25/11/2017 à 23:35, Sergii Stoian a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> More than 15 years ago I joined the GNUstep development because I like 
> NeXT's OS design, look and feel. At that time my dream was to return 
> NeXTSTEP desktop to Linux. After 15+ years my dream still alive. I 
> understand that GNUstep project goals somewhat changed over these 
> years. And this is good until project is interesting to broad kind 
> (goals, tastes) of people involved in it's development.
>
> Finally I've decided to inform dear community about my project of last 
> 2+ years.
> I've named is NEXTSPACE. It is SPACE for NeXT applications.
> You can find code and brief description of project here 
> https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace 
> <https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace>.
> It is not finished yet. However I use it as my desktop environment on 
> daily basis.
> You can find RPMs in Packages directory:
> * libdispatch and libobjc2
> * nextspace-core - system specific files: skeleton for user home 
> firectory, shell profile, udev, polkit, etc.
> * nextspace-gnustep - GNUstep libraries with my patches.
Hi, I've set up a Centos virtual machine in VirtualBox to test this. As 
a long time debian user, I'm a little lost in it, even if my first steps 
in Linux where in LinuxPPC (LinuxPPC-2000 !), Yellowdog and then 
MandrakePPC. But it runs now.

I've installed your RPMs, with the hope to have a Nextspace session to 
launch. I understand know that I can't, because Workspace isn't 
packaged. I'm eager to try it.

But for now, I tried to launch Gorm which is in the 
/Developper/Applications. But it fails to run, complaining about missing 
gnuustep-back.  Should I specify a special name for back using the  
defaults command ?

> The next step is to build Frameworks, then Appplications. You can 
> create new user with all needed files inside it's home dir. You can 
> start Login with command 'systemctl start loginwindow' or login to 
> newly created user from your login application (it should start 
> ~/.xinitrc in user home dir). That's it.
You mean that, with your rpms installed, i f I build Frameworks, 
Workspace and Login; then any newly created user will have the needed 
files and that I will be able to launch Login.app ?

Thanks for this tremendous amount of work.

Bertrand Dekoninck