Re: GNUstep on Hackernews

[Xavier Brochard]

Le 17.12.2021 22:48, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
> On 2021-12-16 17:22:07 +0100 Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote:
> > No, not BSD; while I admire all the BSDs, they are not 
> > beginner-friendly OSes.
>
> Debatable… I use all of them, and was amazed at how "easy" BSDs have
> become. True, you need not to fear the command line, but beginners are
> not alike, some are not stupid, just beginners.

I think that GNUstep need to debate about what users they want to 
target. Young and enthusiast peoples knows Ubuntu, while more 
experienced ones have learned the free software "ecosystem". Young and 
enthusiast are students and have more free time than workers, 
experienced peoples are already busy with other projects.

> > I know, there's no "native" web browser. That is not a biggie; just
> > bundle Firefox. To be ambitious, take the Javascript plugin that
> > Ubuntu used to integrate Firefox into Unity and make it display
> > GNUstep style menus instead.
>
> That could be interesting to integrate with our menus, however latest
> Firefox killed menus

Huh ? they are still available. Just press the Alt key.

> so I would just package Firefox as-is. It is becoming a UX of
> its own.

It is true that users who already knows Firefox will not have trouble 
with its native UI. A GNUStep style menu can be postponed. An easy task 
for young and enthusiast people :-)

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