Thank you Riccardo for your great work on this release and for the kind words you found fro remember Bertrand.
Merry Christmas to you, Fred > Am 25.12.2021 um 01:37 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>: > > GWORKSPACE 1.0 > -------------- > > Christmas, in Anno Domini 2021. > > This is a different announcemement than usual, since it is a special release: > it is tagged 1.0 after many years of work. It is different, because it is a > personal writing. The last release has been long ago, but many refinements > and improvements came in; there has been a person who spurred me improving > and working on GWorkspace: Bertrand Dekoninck. > > Hard times were the past two years and they have not been easy and the > pandemic is not yet over, so in the Christmas Eve, a new release of > GWorkspace has been done and it is dedicated to Bertrand: so shall he be > remembered from us GNUsteppers, he, who had not the privilege to live till > Christmas with his family. > > A reserved user who really gave the sensation to be interested in GNUstep and > its applications, thus, especially GWorkspace. Continuously he proposed > contributions, tested, always gentle, collaborative: a friend. I will miss > him, we will miss him. > Betrand, as me, worked also on PowerPC - so it was inspiring to know that > supporting that Big Endian platform was useful! After the pandemic, I wanted > to meet hi8mfor a hacking session, but it will no longer happen on earth. > > Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! > > > Riccardo > > > What is new? > > * "Modern mode" enables now clearer icon lables on the desktop > * Single click launch is now an option and affects the Dock and the Tabbed > shelf > * cleaned up code in Shelf and Dock Icons > * Fixed display of available tools for documents in the inspector > * Improved display of handled extensions for an applications > * Improve image scaling for image content inspector and image thumbnailer > * Better handling of removable volumes > * Improved French, Italian and Spanish localizations, as well as new Japanese > and Polish ones > * The build system was improved and cleaned up, allowing easier packaging and > building on different platforms > * Fix crash in Metadata extractor > * Fix build failure on GNU/HURD > > Links for info and downloads: > > http://www.gnustep.org/experience/GWorkspace.html > http://www.gnustep.org/resources/downloads.php > https://github.com/gnustep/apps-gworkspace > > -- > Sent with GNUMail on GNUstep on Gentoo running on a ThinkPad T510i-i5. > >
