Re: AGNoStep Desktop status and news

Hi Patrick,


will you attend the GNUstep monthly meeting next Saturday? This meeting would be a great place to show your progress with AGNoStep I think.


kind regards,

	Lars

> Am 07.02.2026 um 12:47 schrieb Patrick Cardona <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> AGNoStep Desktop project is still in Beta but near to reach stability stage.
> The underlying operating system is Debian Trixie. So the target of the future 1.0 RC release will be all kind of computers able to install on Debian.
> 
> I dispatched the previous core project into two complementary subprojects:
> 
> 1. Agnostep-desktop: which installs the core desktop: WMaker, GNUstep system, libs and frameworks, and the main core apps.
> 
> The principle is inspired by BSD ports: using the latest sources (git, svn) or patches provided by the community (debian Salsa) to build all from sources and to be ever up to date.
> 
> It also provides AgnostepManager, which allows to choose and to install with ease Extra apps, Utilities, Games, Devel apps, User Settings, Display Manager.
> 
> https://github.com/pcardona34/agnostep-desktop
> 
> 2. Agnostep-theme: with a flat design and an icon-set adapted from the Papirus project. It sets the user settings: choice betwin the flavours of the theme (Conky Panel or Classic, i.e. more NeXT like), menu style (NeXT vertical block or Mac menu bar)... A rotate wallpaper utility with collections of pictures, generates .xinitrc, .xsession, autostart, defaults...
> 
> As it was separated from the Desktop core project, it could now be more easily ported to other projects with some little work I think.
> 
> It provides also usefull tools to monitor the system (date, time, uptime, memory, cpu, storage, network, battery) and also:
> - Updater to notify about upgradable Debian package, and Upgrade.app to perform them.
> - Birhday and Feast notify;
> - Weather Heat...
> - Printer: an helper to access CUPS admin.
> 
> It can uninstall itself to recover a classic GNUstep theme too.
> 
> https://github.com/pcardona34/agnostep-theme
> 
> Little things remain, but such details count.
> So I would appreciate help or tips about:
> 
> a- The way to  provide a generic menu for non native GNUstep applications wrappers.
> b- LoginPanel: I was not able to build it (I will write some message apart). I use LightDM in the meanwhile.
> c- What should be the best way to provide a demo for am64 systems? A VM? For the arm64, I can create SD-Card images for the RPI's.
> 
> Regards,
> Patrick
> 
> -- 
> Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux aarch64 (Debian 13.3)
> Xorg (1:7.7+24) - libcairo2 (1.18.4-1+rpt1 arm64)
> Window Maker (0.96.0-4) - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) - Theme: AGNOSTEP - MUA: GNUMail (rev.947)
> 
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