thanks for the work on GWorkspace and congratulations on the release!!

merry xmas and happy new year,
Riccardo

On Sat 25. Dec 2021 at 02:34, Riccardo Mottola via Info-gnustep <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
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>
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