Re: apps-gnustep Digest, Vol 47, Issue 3

Thomas Wawra <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:45:45 +0100
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Hi

I tried to start GWorkspace with openapp

the following lines appeared

fswatcher [4691] register client 2
fswatcher [4691] Connection became invalid
fswatcher [4691] No next in enumerator (3 times)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I am using the following versions:

freebsd 8.0
gnustep-base-1.19.3
gnustep-gui-0.17.1
gnustep-back-0.17.1
gworkspace-0.8.7

Can someone help?

Thanks
thomas

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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:34:29 +0100
> From: Dirk Olmes <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: State of the 'Step
> To: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> > Zipper, wish it did not depend on Renissance, put an * in for the
> > filename to gunzip to a directory.
>
> Would you care to elaborate? While chances are low that I'll get rid of
> the dependency on Renaissance, I'd like to hear about any bugs in Zipper.
>
> -dirk
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:26:33 -0500
> From: Gregory Casamento <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: State of the 'Step
> To: "Ronald C.F. Antony" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], Fred Kiefer <[email protected]>,
>        [email protected]
> Message-ID:
>        <[email protected]>
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>
> Ronald,
>
> You're preaching to the choir here on this one.  Any ideas how to make
> that happen?   I would love to get up to date packages everywhere.
>
> Thanks, GC
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Even more to the point: unless there are simple GnuStep meta-packages for
> the major BSD and Linux distributions that are reasonable
> "click-install-run" easy, most of the effort going into GNUStep is wasted,
> because except for a few nostalgic exNeXT users and a few developers, nobody
> is going to use it.
> > I didn't have time to play with GNUStep for ages, but I keep following
> the development from a distance, but think about it for a moment: if KDE or
> something like it would require that level of involvement just to get going,
> do you think it would have the sort of adoption it has now?
> >
> > Ronald
> >
> > On 14 Feb 2010, at 16:34, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> >
> >> Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a
> >> developer I am most interested in what didn't work :-(
> >> Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from SVN?
> >> (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then this
> >> was a very old version of GNUstep)
> >>
> >> And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system for
> >> GNUstep that didn't make it upstream?
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Discuss-gnustep mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Gregory Casamento
> yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa
> (240)274-9630 (Cell)
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>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:39:35 +0100
> From: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: State of the 'Step
> To: Fred Kiefer <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Message-ID: <7f853c69fec70046d69e635b7fffcf87@DV3-2150us>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed"
>
> Fred,
>
> Well to be honest nothing worked using the SVN version of
> base/back/make/gui, GNUMail, GWorkspace, Terminal all immediatly
> segfaulted on launch.  I don't really see that as an issue, SVN is
> going to be broken from time to time and watching the IRC channel
> there is enough action going on that breakage is going to occur.
>
> That being said, GNUstep has been in development for 15 years, are the
> current efforts primarily aimed at making it a clone of OSX? I f the
> concept is to allow OSX applications to be easily ported to GNUstep
> then that is a good plan but if the intent is to develop for OSX
> without needing a MAC then I think it is doomed to fail.  For me it is
> all about the applications.  I really like the look and feel of
> GNUstep, the concepts of services, bundles and frameworks really make
> sense and they are NOT well implemented on the MAC.  The time is
> perfect for a third FLOSS desktop, KDE has gone off on the Windows
> tangent and is gaining many new users but it is loseing power-users in
> droves, Gnome is Gnome and will always be Gnome, you either love it or
> hate it, I hate it.  Verticle menus and a verticle dock courtesy of
> Windowmaker make more sense now than ever before considering the
> almost universal move to wide-screen monitors.  I am not a purist, I
> am not saying we should be locked to the OpenStep API of 15 years ago,
> there has been a lot of progress in the computer world, wifi,
> bluetooth, ACPI, none of tose things were around back then.  I like
> the square-gray look but recognize that others do not so making things
> skinnable makes sense, just allow me to keep the look I like.
>
> Saying that GNUstep is nothing but a development environment is a bit
> of a cop-out, like taking 15 years of development. hundreds of
> thousands of hours of work and equating it to Visual-Basic.  It is
> like saying, that you build hammers that can only be used to build
> more hammers, never any houses.
>
> Please don't think that I don't appreciate the efforts of the
> base/back/gui developers, without them nothing works.
>
> Over the last couple weeks reading the mailing lists including
> archives I have gotten the impression that most GNUstep developers
> don't really use GNUstep, they don't use Project Center for
> development, they don't use GNUMail, they do use Gorm which explains
> its comparative advanced state but of course Gorm is not needed for
> base/back/make development.
>
> Users need applications, applications require application developers,
> application developers need a stable API, 15 years is a long time.
>
> -j
>
> On 2010-02-14 22:34:15 +0100 Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a
> > developer I am most interested in what didn't work :-(
> > Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from SVN?
> > (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then
> > this
> > was a very old version of GNUstep)
> >
> > And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system for
> > GNUstep that didn't make it upstream?
> >
> > Fred
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:03:34 +0100
> From: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: State of the 'Step
> To: Dirk Olmes <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Message-ID: <88b0191cc22592118cd8c79825e089e3@DV3-2150us>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed"
>
> Dirk,
>
> I did not find any real bugs in Zipper, the one issue I had was that
> when you attempt to decompress a tarball with multiple files Zipper
> expects you to give it a filename instead of just pointing at the
> directory to put the files in.  I discovered through trial and error
> that if I put an asterisk in for the filename then the OK button will
> become enabled.  Could probably have fixed that issue myself if Zipper
> had a Gorm editable GUI.
>
> Zipper works well and is important enough to me that I installed
> Renaissance just so I can use it.
>
> -j
>
> On 2010-02-15 14:34:29 +0100 Dirk Olmes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Zipper, wish it did not depend on Renissance, put an * in for the
> >> filename to gunzip to a directory.
> >
> > Would you care to elaborate? While chances are low that I'll get rid
> > of
> > the dependency on Renaissance, I'd like to hear about any bugs in
> > Zipper.
> >
> > -dirk
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:09:55 +0100
> From: Thomas Wawra <[email protected]>
> Subject: Problem : openapp: command not found
> To: [email protected]
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried to run an app with the command: openapp in windowmaker on a freebsd
> 8.0 machine.
>
> Then : openapp: command not found appeared.
>
>
> Does anyone knows how to solve the problem?
>
>
> Thx
> Thomas
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:29:27 +0100
> From: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: State of the 'Step
> To: Gregory Casamento <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], Fred Kiefer <[email protected]>,
>        [email protected], "Ronald C.F. Antony" <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <6d666f4b82ca23fdba12c57fa1ba7152@DV3-2150us>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed"
>
> Gregory, Ronald, et al,
>
> The Debian folks actually do a pretty good job of maintaining an
> easily installed workable group of GNUstep applications.  I don't use
> them because I want to modify some of the apps with my own icons and
> adjust the UI using Gorm, also want to be able to install updated apps
> easily.  Debian changes the installation path so mixing and matching
> is a hassle.
>
> I think it would be great if we could come up with a system to
> identify applications that are known to build and run on a certain
> base/back/gui.  Perhaps it could be tied to the version of Startup so
> that a few weeks before a new version of Startup is released it goes
> into to feature lock giving Application developers a chance to certify
> their apps against that version of Startup.  Perhaps a numbering
> scheme like "GWorkspace-0.8.7-cert-0.22.0.tgz" could indicate that
> this is the 0.8.7 version of GWorkspace and THIS tarball has been
> demonstrated to compile and run on the default installation of
> Startup-0.22.0.  It would of course be best if more than one person
> tests the app.  Then Etoile, Debian, BSD, etc. could use those
> versions as a starting point to mod for their distributions, of course
> passing any bugs and patches upstream.  Maybe GAP could host the
> certified version of the applications if they were willing.
>
> -j
>
>
>
> On 2010-02-15 22:26:33 +0100 Gregory Casamento
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ronald,
> >
> > You're preaching to the choir here on this one.  Any ideas how to make
> > that happen?   I would love to get up to date packages everywhere.
> >
> > Thanks, GC
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony
> > <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> Even more to the point: unless there are simple GnuStep
> >> meta-packages for
> >> the major BSD and Linux distributions that are reasonable
> >> "click-install-run" easy, most of the effort going into GNUStep is
> >> wasted,
> >> because except for a few nostalgic exNeXT users and a few
> >> developers,
> >> nobody is going to use it.
> >> I didn't have time to play with GNUStep for ages, but I keep
> >> following the
> >> development from a distance, but think about it for a moment: if KDE
> >> or
> >> something like it would require that level of involvement just to
> >> get
> >> going, do you think it would have the sort of adoption it has now?
> >>
> >> Ronald
> >>
> >> On 14 Feb 2010, at 16:34, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> >>
> >>> Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a
> >>> developer I am most interested in what didn't work :-(
> >>> Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from
> >>> SVN?
> >>> (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then
> >>> this
> >>> was a very old version of GNUstep)
> >>>
> >>> And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system for
> >>> GNUstep that didn't make it upstream?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list
> >> [email protected]
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:36:39 +0100
> From: "J. Jordan" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Problem : openapp: command not found
> To: Thomas Wawra <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Message-ID: <451e59d06d3e12b9015f8fa4cf595ce7@DV3-2150us>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed"
>
> You probably do not need to use the openapp command.  I am not a BSD
> user but on Linux you can use the name of the application (they have
> been installing symlinks for a while).  to run GWorkspace just type
> GWorkspace, capitalization is important and many GNUstep apps use
> CamelCase.  You may also try "open GWorkspace" and if all else fails
> go inside the directory GWorkspace.app and use ./GWorkspace or
> whatever the executable is.
>
> -j
>
>
> On 2010-02-16 11:09:55 +0100 Thomas Wawra <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to run an app with the command: openapp in windowmaker on a
> > freebsd
> > 8.0 machine.
> >
> > Then : openapp: command not found appeared.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone knows how to solve the problem?
> >
> >
> > Thx
> > Thomas
> > _______________________________________________
> > apps-gnustep mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-gnustep
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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Hi<br><br>I tried to start GWorkspace with openapp<br><br>the following lin=
es appeared<br><br>fswatcher [4691] register client 2<br>fswatcher [4691] C=
onnection became invalid<br>fswatcher [4691] No next in enumerator (3 times=
)<br>

Segmentation fault (core dumped)<br><br>I am using the following versions:<=
br><br>freebsd 8.0<br>gnustep-base-1.19.3<br>gnustep-gui-0.17.1<br>gnustep-=
back-0.17.1<br>gworkspace-0.8.7<br><br>Can someone help?<br><br>Thanks<br>
thomas<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2010/2/16  <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<=
a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]=
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:34:29 +0100<br>
From: Dirk Olmes &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">dirk@xanthip=
pe.ping.de</a>&gt;<br>
Subject: Re: State of the &#39;Step<br>
To: &quot;J. Jordan&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]"=
>[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
Cc: <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, <a hr=
ef=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br>
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&gt; Zipper, wish it did not depend on Renissance, put an * in for the<br>
&gt; filename to gunzip to a directory.<br>
<br>
Would you care to elaborate? While chances are low that I&#39;ll get rid of=
<br>
the dependency on Renaissance, I&#39;d like to hear about any bugs in Zippe=
r.<br>
<br>
-dirk<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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Message: 2<br>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:26:33 -0500<br>
From: Gregory Casamento &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">gre=
[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
Subject: Re: State of the &#39;Step<br>
To: &quot;Ronald C.F. Antony&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
">[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
Cc: <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, Fred =
Kiefer &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt;,<=
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Ronald,<br>
<br>
You&#39;re preaching to the choir here on this one. =A0Any ideas how to mak=
e<br>
that happen? =A0 I would love to get up to date packages everywhere.<br>
<br>
Thanks, GC<br>
<br>
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:r=
[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Even more to the point: unless there are simple GnuStep meta-packages =
for the major BSD and Linux distributions that are reasonable &quot;click-i=
nstall-run&quot; easy, most of the effort going into GNUStep is wasted, bec=
ause except for a few nostalgic exNeXT users and a few developers, nobody i=
s going to use it.<br>

&gt; I didn&#39;t have time to play with GNUStep for ages, but I keep follo=
wing the development from a distance, but think about it for a moment: if K=
DE or something like it would require that level of involvement just to get=
 going, do you think it would have the sort of adoption it has now?<br>

&gt;<br>
&gt; Ronald<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On 14 Feb 2010, at 16:34, Fred Kiefer wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a=
<br>
&gt;&gt; developer I am most interested in what didn&#39;t work :-(<br>
&gt;&gt; Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from S=
VN?<br>
&gt;&gt; (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then=
 this<br>
&gt;&gt; was a very old version of GNUstep)<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system f=
or<br>
&gt;&gt; GNUstep that didn&#39;t make it upstream?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; _______________________________________________<br>
&gt; Discuss-gnustep mailing list<br>
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yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa<br>
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Message: 3<br>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:39:35 +0100<br>
From: &quot;J. Jordan&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
m">[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
Subject: Re: State of the &#39;Step<br>
To: Fred Kiefer &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]<=
/a>&gt;<br>
Cc: <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, <a hr=
ef=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D&quot;us-ascii&quot;; format=3D&quot;fl=
owed&quot;<br>
<br>
Fred,<br>
<br>
Well to be honest nothing worked using the SVN version of<br>
base/back/make/gui, GNUMail, GWorkspace, Terminal all immediatly<br>
segfaulted on launch. =A0I don&#39;t really see that as an issue, SVN is<br=
>
going to be broken from time to time and watching the IRC channel<br>
there is enough action going on that breakage is going to occur.<br>
<br>
That being said, GNUstep has been in development for 15 years, are the<br>
current efforts primarily aimed at making it a clone of OSX? I f the<br>
concept is to allow OSX applications to be easily ported to GNUstep<br>
then that is a good plan but if the intent is to develop for OSX<br>
without needing a MAC then I think it is doomed to fail. =A0For me it is<br=
>
all about the applications. =A0I really like the look and feel of<br>
GNUstep, the concepts of services, bundles and frameworks really make<br>
sense and they are NOT well implemented on the MAC. =A0The time is<br>
perfect for a third FLOSS desktop, KDE has gone off on the Windows<br>
tangent and is gaining many new users but it is loseing power-users in<br>
droves, Gnome is Gnome and will always be Gnome, you either love it or<br>
hate it, I hate it. =A0Verticle menus and a verticle dock courtesy of<br>
Windowmaker make more sense now than ever before considering the<br>
almost universal move to wide-screen monitors. =A0I am not a purist, I<br>
am not saying we should be locked to the OpenStep API of 15 years ago,<br>
there has been a lot of progress in the computer world, wifi,<br>
bluetooth, ACPI, none of tose things were around back then. =A0I like<br>
the square-gray look but recognize that others do not so making things<br>
skinnable makes sense, just allow me to keep the look I like.<br>
<br>
Saying that GNUstep is nothing but a development environment is a bit<br>
of a cop-out, like taking 15 years of development. hundreds of<br>
thousands of hours of work and equating it to Visual-Basic. =A0It is<br>
like saying, that you build hammers that can only be used to build<br>
more hammers, never any houses.<br>
<br>
Please don&#39;t think that I don&#39;t appreciate the efforts of the<br>
base/back/gui developers, without them nothing works.<br>
<br>
Over the last couple weeks reading the mailing lists including<br>
archives I have gotten the impression that most GNUstep developers<br>
don&#39;t really use GNUstep, they don&#39;t use Project Center for<br>
development, they don&#39;t use GNUMail, they do use Gorm which explains<br=
>
its comparative advanced state but of course Gorm is not needed for<br>
base/back/make development.<br>
<br>
Users need applications, applications require application developers,<br>
application developers need a stable API, 15 years is a long time.<br>
<br>
-j<br>
<br>
On 2010-02-14 22:34:15 +0100 Fred Kiefer &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:fredkiefer@g=
mx.de">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a<br>
&gt; developer I am most interested in what didn&#39;t work :-(<br>
&gt; Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from SVN?<=
br>
&gt; (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then<br>
&gt; this<br>
&gt; was a very old version of GNUstep)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system for<b=
r>
&gt; GNUstep that didn&#39;t make it upstream?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Fred<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<br>
Message: 4<br>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:03:34 +0100<br>
From: &quot;J. Jordan&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
m">[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
Subject: Re: State of the &#39;Step<br>
To: Dirk Olmes &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">dirk@xanthippe=
.ping.de</a>&gt;<br>
Cc: <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, <a hr=
ef=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br>
Message-ID: &lt;88b0191cc22592118cd8c79825e089e3@DV3-2150us&gt;<br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D&quot;us-ascii&quot;; format=3D&quot;fl=
owed&quot;<br>
<br>
Dirk,<br>
<br>
I did not find any real bugs in Zipper, the one issue I had was that<br>
when you attempt to decompress a tarball with multiple files Zipper<br>
expects you to give it a filename instead of just pointing at the<br>
directory to put the files in. =A0I discovered through trial and error<br>
that if I put an asterisk in for the filename then the OK button will<br>
become enabled. =A0Could probably have fixed that issue myself if Zipper<br=
>
had a Gorm editable GUI.<br>
<br>
Zipper works well and is important enough to me that I installed<br>
Renaissance just so I can use it.<br>
<br>
-j<br>
<br>
On 2010-02-15 14:34:29 +0100 Dirk Olmes &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:dirk@xanthipp=
e.ping.de">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt;&gt; Zipper, wish it did not depend on Renissance, put an * in for the<=
br>
&gt;&gt; filename to gunzip to a directory.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Would you care to elaborate? While chances are low that I&#39;ll get r=
id<br>
&gt; of<br>
&gt; the dependency on Renaissance, I&#39;d like to hear about any bugs in<=
br>
&gt; Zipper.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; -dirk<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<br>
Message: 5<br>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:09:55 +0100<br>
From: Thomas Wawra &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">twawra@goog=
lemail.com</a>&gt;<br>
Subject: Problem : openapp: command not found<br>
To: <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br>
Message-ID:<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:a0115b5b1002160209h2b5e16acl36720cb47=
[email protected]">[email protected]=
mail.com</a>&gt;<br>
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<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
I tried to run an app with the command: openapp in windowmaker on a freebsd=
<br>
8.0 machine.<br>
<br>
Then : openapp: command not found appeared.<br>
<br>
<br>
Does anyone knows how to solve the problem?<br>
<br>
<br>
Thx<br>
Thomas<br>
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Message: 6<br>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:29:27 +0100<br>
From: &quot;J. Jordan&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
m">[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
Subject: Re: State of the &#39;Step<br>
To: Gregory Casamento &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">greg.=
[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
Cc: <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, Fred =
Kiefer &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt;,<=
br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">discuss-gnustep@=
gnu.org</a>, &quot;Ronald C.F. Antony&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:rcfa@cubi=
culum.com">[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
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Gregory, Ronald, et al,<br>
<br>
The Debian folks actually do a pretty good job of maintaining an<br>
easily installed workable group of GNUstep applications. =A0I don&#39;t use=
<br>
them because I want to modify some of the apps with my own icons and<br>
adjust the UI using Gorm, also want to be able to install updated apps<br>
easily. =A0Debian changes the installation path so mixing and matching<br>
is a hassle.<br>
<br>
I think it would be great if we could come up with a system to<br>
identify applications that are known to build and run on a certain<br>
base/back/gui. =A0Perhaps it could be tied to the version of Startup so<br>
that a few weeks before a new version of Startup is released it goes<br>
into to feature lock giving Application developers a chance to certify<br>
their apps against that version of Startup. =A0Perhaps a numbering<br>
scheme like &quot;GWorkspace-0.8.7-cert-0.22.0.tgz&quot; could indicate tha=
t<br>
this is the 0.8.7 version of GWorkspace and THIS tarball has been<br>
demonstrated to compile and run on the default installation of<br>
Startup-0.22.0. =A0It would of course be best if more than one person<br>
tests the app. =A0Then Etoile, Debian, BSD, etc. could use those<br>
versions as a starting point to mod for their distributions, of course<br>
passing any bugs and patches upstream. =A0Maybe GAP could host the<br>
certified version of the applications if they were willing.<br>
<br>
-j<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2010-02-15 22:26:33 +0100 Gregory Casamento<br>
&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a=
>&gt; wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; Ronald,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; You&#39;re preaching to the choir here on this one. =A0Any ideas how t=
o make<br>
&gt; that happen? =A0 I would love to get up to date packages everywhere.<b=
r>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Thanks, GC<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony<br>
&gt; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt;<b=
r>
&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt; Even more to the point: unless there are simple GnuStep<br>
&gt;&gt; meta-packages for<br>
&gt;&gt; the major BSD and Linux distributions that are reasonable<br>
&gt;&gt; &quot;click-install-run&quot; easy, most of the effort going into =
GNUStep is<br>
&gt;&gt; wasted,<br>
&gt;&gt; because except for a few nostalgic exNeXT users and a few<br>
&gt;&gt; developers,<br>
&gt;&gt; nobody is going to use it.<br>
&gt;&gt; I didn&#39;t have time to play with GNUStep for ages, but I keep<b=
r>
&gt;&gt; following the<br>
&gt;&gt; development from a distance, but think about it for a moment: if K=
DE<br>
&gt;&gt; or<br>
&gt;&gt; something like it would require that level of involvement just to<=
br>
&gt;&gt; get<br>
&gt;&gt; going, do you think it would have the sort of adoption it has now?=
<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Ronald<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; On 14 Feb 2010, at 16:34, Fred Kiefer wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But bei=
ng a<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; developer I am most interested in what didn&#39;t work :-(<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep fr=
om<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; SVN?<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS =
then<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; this<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; was a very old version of GNUstep)<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch syst=
em for<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; GNUstep that didn&#39;t make it upstream?<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; _______________________________________________<br>
&gt;&gt; Discuss-gnustep mailing list<br>
&gt;&gt; <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]=
</a><br>
&gt;&gt; <a href=3D"http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep" =
target=3D"_blank">http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep</a>=
<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<br>
Message: 7<br>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:36:39 +0100<br>
From: &quot;J. Jordan&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
m">[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
Subject: Re: Problem : openapp: command not found<br>
To: Thomas Wawra &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">twawra@google=
mail.com</a>&gt;<br>
Cc: <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br>
Message-ID: &lt;451e59d06d3e12b9015f8fa4cf595ce7@DV3-2150us&gt;<br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D&quot;us-ascii&quot;; format=3D&quot;fl=
owed&quot;<br>
<br>
You probably do not need to use the openapp command. =A0I am not a BSD<br>
user but on Linux you can use the name of the application (they have<br>
been installing symlinks for a while). =A0to run GWorkspace just type<br>
GWorkspace, capitalization is important and many GNUstep apps use<br>
CamelCase. =A0You may also try &quot;open GWorkspace&quot; and if all else =
fails<br>
go inside the directory GWorkspace.app and use ./GWorkspace or<br>
whatever the executable is.<br>
<br>
-j<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2010-02-16 11:09:55 +0100 Thomas Wawra &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:twawra@goog=
lemail.com">[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; Hi,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I tried to run an app with the command: openapp in windowmaker on a<br=
>
&gt; freebsd<br>
&gt; 8.0 machine.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Then : openapp: command not found appeared.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Does anyone knows how to solve the problem?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Thx<br>
&gt; Thomas<br>
&gt; _______________________________________________<br>
&gt; apps-gnustep mailing list<br>
&gt; <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br>
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=3D"_blank">http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-gnustep</a><br>
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