From:	 dennis@made-it.com
To:	 discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
Subject: GNUstep Weekly Editorial 02-11-2001
Date:	 Fri, 2 Nov 2001 06:05:31 +0100


   New GNUstep weekly editorial available at [1]http://www.gnustep.net
   
Editorial 2 November 2001

   Laurent Julliard has volunteerd to coordinate the FOSDEM ideas,
   agenda, and list of people that intend to come, so a new section is
   added to this website, called Expo. This section will be used to show
   where you can find GNUstep people and come and visit us.
   
  The mailing-lists
  
   A little discussion about the functioning of Preferences.app ended in
   the idea that is should be build up of modules/bundles to make sure
   that it is suiteable on more then just one Linux distribution, BSD
   system. Eventually there should be Bundles for every system we
   support.
   
   Lars Helldorf has been busy porting GWorkspace.app to MacOS X. Which
   has been a great learning curve, and which brings the MacOS X
   environment and GNUstep more closer to one another. The phrase write
   once, compile everywhere get closer day by day.
   
   Martin Brecher wrote a little HOWTO-get-your-key-bindings-straight,
   which I will copy here for future reference:
    1. Open Window Maker's WPrefs and go to the Mouse Preferences. Then
       use another value for the "Mouse grab modifier" (bottom right).
       That will allow you to alt-drag things. This should be added to a
       FAQ or a Tips'n'Tricks page. Or maybe it would be possible that
       WindowMaker would disable that for gstep windows by default?
    2. When using Popupmenus as KeyPrefs does, they currently may not
       behave right in most apps (KeyPrefs, GWorkspace Preferences etc).
       So to ensure that the value you selected is used, select it twice
       (I noticed the bug, that the formerly selected value will be used
       instead of the new selected one.)
       
  Code changes
  
   Adam added some minor changes to avoid warnings during compilation and
   to make sure ~/GNUstep/Library is created if it doesn't exist.
   
   Nicola add some benchmark testing for calling super. And together with
   Ludovic Marcotte he implemented the blinking insertion point.
   
   Pierre-Yves Rivaille rewrote NSStepperCell. It should behave properly
   now. He also made NSTableView comply to OpenStep 4.2 and speed
   improvements.
   
   Richard Frith-Macdonald fixed a couple of bugs in XGContextEvent.m
   
  Applications
  
   The biggest supprise this week ofcourse was the porting effort of
   GWorkspace.app to MacOS X. Hope this will eventually show the ease of
   two on OpenStep based systems and their ability to share code.
   
   Richard Frith-Macdonald and Pierre-Yves Rivaille have improved GORM,
   so time for a new CVS checkout.
   
   Dennis Leeuw

References

   1. http://www.gnustep.net/