Ambrosia - A modern GNUstep Desktop Written in Objective-C

Designed to be a functional modern Desktop based on GNUstep, Wayland, Pipewire and Network-Manager.

Provides a Stacking Compositor and Dock for GNUstep Applications running on Wayland. Designed for use with NSMacintoshMenuStyle.

Includes SystemPreferences.app modules for configuring Ambrosia Compositor/Audio/Bluetooth/Network/Power/Video

Ambrosia is organized as GNUstep subprojects (Compositor, Dock, MenuServer, SystemPreferences modules, and AmbrosiaMenus) and depends on the following build/runtime libraries:

• GNUstep toolchain and frameworks

  • gnustep-make
  • gnustep-base
  • gnustep-gui
  • gnustep-back (with Wayland support)

• Wayland compositor stack (Compositor)

  • wlroots-0.20 (via pkg-config)
  • wayland-server
  • xkbcommon
  • cairo
  • xcb, xcb-icccm, xcb-ewmh
  • libdrm (-ldrm)
  • libjpeg (-ljpeg)

• Menu/status integration (MenuServer)

  • dbus-1

• Build tooling

  • pkg-config (used to resolve compiler/linker flags)

• GNUstep Applications

• SimpleAgenda.app For MenuServer calendar

• Terminal.app Default System Terminal

• GFinder.app File Manager

Screenshot of Desktop Environment: