Re: [Fwd: web page update]

[Adrian Robert]

hi,

It's good that we are trying to clarify things, and thank you to the 
people working on this.

However, I feel http://gnustep.org/information/wm.html is a bit 
overblown.  Do we really need more than the first two paragraphs?  
(BTW, the link to WindowMaker.org needs to be fixed.)  This sounds like 
John Kerry trying to define himself as "not-Bush".  ;)  (Apologies to 
non-U.S. readers.)  All that is needed is a simple statement of the 
relationship between the two projects, perhaps with some history that 
would make things clearer, and then spend the rest of the effort on 
presenting what GNUstep is (a matured framework of libraries and other 
facilities supporting efficient application development; in its Cocoa 
incarnation it underlies most applications and facilities you see on OS 
X, but in its GNUstep guise it plays a lower-profile role, supporting 
individual applications on linux and other systems, together with some 
limited desktop environment facilities).

The first two paragraphs do a good job of providing such a statement.

As far as related projects go, there are other projects besides 
WindowMaker for which confusion could arise -- AfterStep, various 
NeXT-like widget sets, libFoundation and the various Cocoa-related 
sourceforge projects that periodically come up on the mailing list, the 
PDA project by a former GNUstep member, probably more..  Would it make 
sense to handle these on a common "related projects" page?



On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Adam Fedor wrote:

> On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:46 AM, MJ Ray wrote:
>
> > On 2004-09-22 07:45:49 +0100 Alex Perez 
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > I rewrote the main web page to highlight what GNUstep is for those 
> > > new
> > > to it, and to emphasis the difference between GNUstep, the 
> > > developement
> > > environment, and GNUstep the desktop. Let me know what you think.
> >
> > I'm still not keen on having that wiki page linked so high on the 
> > main page. I prefer the style "several efforts [1] [2]" rather than 
> > word-linking, from what people have said to me in the past about 
> > things like http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2004-5.html#nocountryconsts
> >
> > Excepting those two qualms, it's an improvement on what went before.
>
> I though the same about the wiki, so I moved it to a web page, and 
> also made the other changes you suggested.
>
>
>
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