In Search of the NeXTSTEP Look

GUNTHER asks: "I've fallen in love with the NeXTSTEP style interface. I would love to have a NeXT machine but they are rather hard to come by these days, so I have been looking for programs and libraries to emulate its look and feel. I am familiar with GNUStep, Afterstep, TKStep, and GTKStep but what else is available to emulate the NeXTSTEP look and feel?"

Comments

Why not just buy the real thing?

[daviddennis]

I've noticed quite a few of them on eBay, and they're pretty cheap, so there seems to be no reason not to get the original.

Or you could just wait. MacOS X, supposedly out late this year, has the authentic NeXT genetic code, and I suspect a NeXT-like development environment would be available. You could also buy NeXTStep for the PC, although I believe it's a bit pricey.

I haven't actually used a real NeXT, so I can't really comment on how good the various Linux-based imitations are.

D

----

NeXTStep look on Windoze

[leiz]

About an year ago I used an "alternative windows manager" for windoze called litestep. It's customizable, open source, and relatively stable. Litestepe runs on 95/98/NT, http://www.litestep.org

enlightenment's step theme

[lubricated]

enlightenment comes with two step themes. To it add GTKStep. Start up Gnome. Put the panel in the upper right hand corner. Now with all the gnome and GTK stuff all your applications will have a step theme. If you wan't a word processor, Get abiword. For ftp (wxftp, gftp, IglooFTP) These will all load up the Step theme. Web browser: Mozilla. Just about any application you need you can get done with gtk and therefore looking Stepish. Window Maker is also a good Step like Window manager.