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GORM 1.0 Release to Take on GNOME/KDE?
qa'lth writes "Today marks the occasion of the release of Gorm 1.0, the Interface Builder for the GNUstep project, and with its release, comes the obsolesence of the GNOME and KDE projects. Finally, today, Free Software users can enjoy the power of a well-designed, powerful object-oriented system derived from OpenStep, legacy to the acclaimed MacOSX, through GNUstep, our loving reimplementation of the OpenStep standard."
Trolltech is a COMPANY - not an open source trust. As much as I like KDE and Qt, you need to keep in mind that they can go away in an instant if Trolltech is bought, the license changes, ect. The counter argument here is that the license is written in such a way that it provides for such an event. Maybe so - but the threat of a (or actual) lawsuit (even if it results in a loss in the long term) would be enough to kill the project or at least result in companies running from it.
GNOME's APIs suck (or at least they did a year or so ago) - its that simple. Unless there has been (or will be) a major restructuring - its NOT fun to play with.
GNUStep gets us closer to a completely open stack. Its well written and well thought out.
HA! I literally laughed out loud at that screenshot.
bash: rtfm: command not found
That *step interface looked hot in the early 90s, but now we have skinnable GUIs instead of Motif and the like. Changing colors doesn't count as "themable", BTW.
Riiight. 'Nuff said.