Re: New "GNUstep based Desktop Environments" Page in the GNUstep wiki

> Am 03.05.2026 um 17:31 schrieb Patrick CARDONA <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi Lars,
> 
> On 2026-05-03 02:31:40 +0200 [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi 'Steppers,
>> 
>> 
>> I have created a new "GNUstep based Desktop Environments" Page in the GNUstep 
>> wiki:
>> 
>> https://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUstep_based_Desktop_Environments
> 
> Thanks for this initiative.
> 
>> 
>> This is currently a stub with only the most basic information on it and 
>> intended as a playground for that topic and as a placeholder for a respective 
>> page on the GNUstep Main site (which doesn’t yet exist and probably won’t 
>> for a while as the pace for the main website is rather slow and fine 
>> grained).
>> 
>> I want to discuss what information should go onto that page and invite 
>> everybody to contribute!
> 
> Maybe, as installing and testing take time, to help the new incomer, we could envisage a descriptive matrix to help choosing:
> 
> Items could be:
> 
> - What operating system is targetted or much easy to install on? ...
> - What architectures are targetted? all / amd64 / aarch64...
> - What is the display protocol targetted?  Xorg / Wayland / other?
> - What window manager is required? Window Maker / Other to be described
> 
> - What is the Workspace manager? Native GWorkspace / GWorkspace forked / Newer to be described
> - What is the global style? MacOS like / NeXT like
> 
> - Is the GNUstep system installed native or forked?
> - Does the GNUstep system installed complies with libojc2 or legacy objective-C?
> 
> - How is the GNUstep system installed? from operating system packages / from sources / from universal package(?)
> - How GNUstep applications are installed? from operating system packages / from sources / from universal package(?)
> - What helpers the project provides to glue all the stuf together? Installation scripts? Wizard? Packages? ISO?
> 
> Maybe we could also provide:
> -  Status: research or alpha stage / beta stage / stable for a daily use
> - Collection of applications or wrappers to respond for desktop tasks...

I like this idea. Could be done by a large table with the desktops as the columns. But maybe we collect the data first in the current list style (columns for the desktops would be easier to read but harder to maintain, because tables are row oriented in Mediawiki).

> 
>> 
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> 	Lars
>> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Patrick

Cheers,

	Lars