Project tasks and goals

Goal

The main goal of NEXTSPACE project is to create usable desktop for everyday usage with look and feel of NeXT’s OPENSTEP desktop enviroment.

Goal achievement is composed of several blocks of tasks:

1. User applications.
2. GNUstep framework ehnacement at some points to create application experience of distinct type.
3. CentOS integration: keyboard, mouse, sound, networking, display, media, power management functions of desktop reactions and user-side configurations.

Below is a description functionality defined for release 1.0.

Applications

Login

Done	Functionality	Project task
	start as systemd service
	initialize and start Xorg on application start
	setup display layout and place itself on display with mouse cursor
	setup mouse cursor and desktop background
	user authentication
	set environment for authenticated user
	wait for user session to finish
	show Login panel when user session was finished
	poweroff and restart computer
	save display layout upon exit/poweroff/restart
	handle display connect/disconnect and resolution change events
	implement Preferneces module

Workspace

Preferences

Terminal

v1.0

Done	Functionality	Project task
	rewrite preferences
	Shell
	Startup file
	Sessions (save to file, load via File>Open…)

CentOS integration

GNUstep enhancements