Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux
I imagine a world in which the F&#x2F;OSS community chose to implement and innovate on GNUStep or some other OpenSTEP&#x2F;NeXT&#x2F;Cocoa compatible implementation. This project is exciting by way of providing a more complete nucleus of what that desktop might look like.<p>The KDE&#x2F;Gnome schism really divided the mindshare of the open *nix desktop. If we’d gone this route, I like to imagine the differences between Mac and Linux or BSD would be small enough that<p>- Mac apps would be a recompile away from running on Linux<p>And<p>- Linux would be a viable developer environment to target macOS<p>Apple’s commitment to the desktop has waned and caused some longtime users like me to go back to Linux&#x2F;BSD. Meanwhile, desktop facilities on Linux&#x2F;BSD have lacked coherence and singularity of vision. A viable, modern post-OpenSTEP Linux and BSD desktop would have the capacity to keep Apple honest, while giving the Free community a benchmark for consistency.<p>I’d love to see something like this project blossom into a 3rd way GUI layer for Linux and BSD.