On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Bertrand Gmail <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> Le 26/11/2017 à 09:27, Graham Lee a écrit :
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>> 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
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