Backbone

a gnustep-based desktop

What is Backbone?

Backbone is an attempt (our attempt) at creating a Really Good Desktop. The metric we use for "Really Good" is our own. In short, to us, Really Good means to carry on the NeXTSTEP® and OPENSTEP® spirit. In more detail:

Interface

We want a clean, efficient, and consistent interface. We want a look and feel that helps us get work done, without attracting attention or getting in the way. We want applications to be consistent, and to make good use of the features of our interface.

Development Environment

The development environment will be based on the highly dynamic (and really nice, and very Object-Oriented) language Objective-C, and the core GNUstep libraries.

Integration

We want to build an environment that actually acts as a integrated environment and not as a bunch of individual apps. We plan on doing this by extending the OPENSTEP service and filter concepts, by extensively providing and using "application services", and by providing an inter-app scripting system.

What will Backbone itself actually provide?