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 > > -- > Sent with GNUMail on GNUstep on Gentoo running on a ThinkPad T510i-i5. > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnustep >
