Here are a couple of links to information on GNUstep. The official GNUstep home page and Michael Hanni's page. Window Maker is a window manager that claims to be the official window manager of the GNUstep project. While this may be true Window Maker by itself is a great desktop environment. It's small, fast and has a consistant look and feel.
All configuration is performed graphically while retaining the ascii configuration files.
Check the Window Maker home page for more details. The desktop will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. Graphics and layout designed by J.Rebelo , May 2000. Code written in nedit.