Let me clarify some things a bit. GNUstep is a libraries and set of tools for development: Makefile environment (gnustep-make), Gorm (Interface Builder) and ProjectCenter (Project Builder). NEXTSPACE's Workspace was written from scratch and has no any connection to GWorkspace. Workspace and WindowMaker is one application (binary) - it is not "repackaged GNUstep and WindowMaker". Patches for WindowMaker was a quite challenging part of Workspace development process. WindowMaker injected into Workspace minimally uses WINGs.
I've spend some time to make keyboard shortcuts consistent across applications and window manager part. My thoughts partly described here https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/wiki/Keyboard. I hope this document help you answer to your question.
I've tried to use anti-aliasing but for menus and titlebars it looks quite weird to my taste. Maybe it's a libfreetype packaged with CentOS? I don't know. I left this question unanswered for the future.
Interesting wish list. Some items are quite easy to implement, some require more developer hands. I think after the 1.0 release there will be some distinct shape of the desktop environment and style guide/project plan. We can discuss it then. If you are ready to take some feature to implement - we can join our efforts.
Completely agree with you. In NEXTSPACE at this point available animations are: window miniaturizing, application hiding, application launching from File Viewer (icon slides to the place where application icon will be created), dropping icon dragged from Dock and Shelf (icon destroying).
Exactly! Look at architecture (https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/wiki/Architecture-a...). NEXTSPACE is a marriage of Linux quite mature technologies (D-Bus, PolKit, systemd) and OpenStep implementation frameworks (GNUstep) to create SPACE where NeXT or NeXT-like applications can live or reborn. Essential part of this is a UX (mature, consistent) with attention to any tiny piece of applications look and feel. That's what I though when started this project.
Workspace is a new application that contains WindowMaker. And it _is_ fully integrated with GNUstep applications. This is not a facade, this is how OPENSTEP feels. Just give it a try.
