Archive for the ‘GNUstep’ Category

GNUstep Narcissus theme

In August, I started playing around with GNUstep’s Narcissus theme. It turned out that Camaelon was quite easy to use, but still a bit slow IMHO.
So I decided to continue my experiments by writing my own theme engine from scratch, drawing everything using the simple PS drawing primitives. The look stays pretty much the same. [...]

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GNUstep Narcissus Theme

I played around with the GNUstep theme engine “Camaelon” and the graphics from a nice little interface mockup by Jesse Ross.

The theme can be checked out by entering

svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/etoile/trunk/Etoile/Bundles/Camaelon Camaelon

on your command line. (You will need a working GNUstep installation for this. Read the INSTALL file for details on how to set up [...]

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Optimizing DictionaryReader

Warning: I’m talking about computer science here.

In the last days, I noticed increased activity in the DictionaryReader project, mostly caused by Yen-Ju working off the remaining bugs. Amongst others, he fixed bug 8497, which annoyed me for quite some time back when I programmed on DictionaryReader. The fix is particularly cool, so I want [...]

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Maintainers wanted

I stopped working on the following Objective-C projects and am now
searching for future maintainers:

The Grr RSS Reader application and RSSKit
DictionaryReader
OPMLKit

The projects can all be found in the Etoile SVN. However, at the moment they
all compile without the Etoile frameworks. Thus, porting them to OSX
is easy to do. I’d like future maintainers to keep the independence [...]

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