On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Bertrand Gmail < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Le 26/11/2017 à 09:27, Graham Lee a écrit : > >> Hi Sergii, >> >> this is very exciting. For me, the unification of GWorkspace with the >> window manager alone makes it all worthwhile; having GWorkspace and >> WindowMaker each produce their own desktop background window and their own >> Dock made them less useful. Thank you! >> > I don't think it's GWorkspace but a brand new app called Workspace as in > Nextstep. > That's a choice but I think that this can of integration would be > valuable for GWorkspace also. In fact, one thing that I lack, is the > ability of GNUstep to integrate non gnustep apps : to give them an app icon > who could be handled by GWorkspace or any other NSWorkspace app, to give > them a global menu as any other GNUstep app, etc. One can even imagine that > GNUstep could give them window decoration and handle the window management. > > I've already thought about that style of grabbing non-GNUstep application's menu and show it as GNUstep one like Ubuntu's Unity does it. They call it global menu, right? I need some research in that field. I think I can look into it after 1.0 release of NEXTSPACE. Anyway it's a good idea for TODO list of project. > For now, GWorkspace uses app wrappers and they are clearly lacking this > kind of features. > > App wrappers is not GWorkspace only solution. It is OpenStep application bundles style. It is possible to read and parse /usr/share/applications/*.desktop files. But there is the desktop design question: where do we place GNOME, GTK, KDE, Qt applications found? I doesn't have answer right now. > Bertrand > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > -- Sergii Stoian, ProjectCenter maintainer
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