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Etoile Project Ideas

Now that I have my laptop, and I have working installations of GNUstep and Etoile, I feel ready to start making apps. But where to start…

I once read that one should “scratch their own itch” — make software that you personally need; chances are others need it too. Since Etoile is just starting out, I need pretty much everything. Most of what I need is outside the scope of my abilities, however: a web browser, an image editor, a Flash replacement. I could maybe see if I could steal some pre-existing code and flesh out the chat client and the file format/bundle for the Contact file type. Yeah, the Contact file type would be good — maybe a wizard for creating a new Contact.

Good work, Jesse. Let’s start there.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 at 9:04 pm and is filed under Etoile, GNUstep, Objective-C, Programming. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Etoile Project Ideas”

  1. martial Says:
    November 13th, 2006 at 11:54 am

    I do like your work. I am no more involved in GNUstep because I have no time but I would like to see GNUstep/Etoile in the future Unix/BSD X11 interface. I used NeXTstep a few years ago and I like the idea of circular menu you made.

  2. Jesse Ross Says:
    November 13th, 2006 at 12:05 pm

    Thank you very much!

    Yes, Etoile is coming along very nicely and should soon have many of the components necessary for a highly workable desktop. If you ever find some time and would like to contribute, we’d love to have you back!

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