All, Words can't express a loss like this. Especially of someone so brilliant. I really can't add much more to the eloquent words written by both Riccardo and Gerold.
I can only say that his imprint on this community will live long after him. He was a great contributor and a valued friend and shall always be remembered. Yours, GC On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 8:01 PM Gerold Rupprecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Anne, > > A small but significant moment to start Christmas day. We honor you, your > husband Bertrand and the spirit of generosity he has shown to us. > > Thank you for your part in making this moment happen. I am sure Bertrand > needed and appreciated your support. > > May your moments of silence and sorrow be short. > > I hope many others will learn to enjoy and appreciate Bertrand's and our > community's contributions to a common good. > Thank you Riccardo, your timing was impeccable. > > Thanks to all GNUsteppers, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, > > Gerold > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: ANN: GWorkspace 1.0 > Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 01:37:36 +0100 > From: Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > Organization: GNUstep > To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > CC: [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. > > > > -- > Gerold Rupprecht > 10, rue Louis-Curval > CH-1206 Genève, Suisse > > Fixed: +41 (0) 22 347 73 96 > Mobile: +41 (0) 79 914 29 52 > > Blog: https://geneva-observer.blogspot.ch/ > > GPG Key ID DFA0A4D4 I prefer encrypted mail. > > If you have not yet begun using encrypted email, you may find the following > link useful,https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ > > -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=352392 - Become a Patron https://gf.me/u/x8m3sx - My GNUstep GoFundMe https://teespring.com/stores/gnustep - Store
