GNUstep based Desktop Environments - About Agnostep

Patrick CARDONA <[email protected]> Sun, 03 May 2026 19:23:42 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.general
Message-ID	<2581d51ee548275a19a86d0b28f7d40e@pi500>

Hi Lars,

This is a kind of brief for Agnostep project:

<Agnostep_brief.txt>

Cheers,
Patrick

-- 
Patrick Cardona - Pi500 - GNU/Linux aarch64 (Debian 13.4)
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 - Classic - MUA: 
GNUMail (1.4.0 - rev.947)

Agnostep_brief.txt (text/plain, 1.2 KB)

Visit-Card of Agnostep Desktop

What operating system is targetted or much easy to install on?
=  Debian stable (Trixie)

What architectures are targetted? 
= All where Debian could be installed

What is the display protocol targetted?
= Xorg

What window manager is required?
= Window Maker 0.96.0 installed from debian package

- What is the Workspace manager?
= Native GWorkspace (1.1.0)

- What is the global style?
= NeXT like

- Is the GNUstep system installed native or forked?
= Native GNUstep system

- Does the GNUstep system installed complies with libojc2 or legacy objective-C?
= Legacy runtime

- How is the GNUstep system installed?
= from sources

- How GNUstep applications are installed?
= from sources

- What helpers the project provides to glue all the stuf together?
= Installation bash scripts and a Wizard (AgnostepManager)

-  Status
= release 2.0.0 beta

- Collection of applications or wrappers to respond for desktop tasks:
= Agnostep helps to install most of the available GNUstep applications from  gap, several from GSDE project
= It also provides some native applications: see at Native GNUstep in purpose apps list from https://github.com/pcardona34/agnostep-desktop/blob/main/Documentation/CORE_APPS.md