Bertrand,
I had no idea you were sick. First, let me say that you have all of my hopes for remission if that's possible. I am terribly sorry about your health.
Please know that your contributions are in no way "small" or little. Every single contribution to GNUstep is deeply appreciated by myself and by the community. We are a small, but a tight-knit set of people who love doing this. I have always loved poetry and one of my favorites is Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqoSZgh7q8&t=77s (one of my favorite renditions of it.. she reads it perfectly. This is a poem that has always reminded me of this group.)
The simple answer is YES.. that, if you can sign an assignment for the work then we can add it to the project directly. In the worst possible outcome, your copyrights would revert to your estate (i.e. people and things you leave behind) and that could get complicated. You can get the assignment here: assign@gnu.org, just tell them you would like an assignment for GNUstep. Once that's done you can transfer them to the gnustep account on github... If you don't want to do the assignment you can transfer them to my account which is gcasa.
you have our deepest hopes and our prayers for your health as well as our love and admiration, both for you and the work you have done which have made GNUstep a better place to be.Yours always, GC
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 5:30 PM Bertrand Dekoninck <bertrand.dekoninck@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Steppers,it's a sad day for me to write such an email. There is no gentle way to say what I'll have to say. Almost all of you don't know that I'm facing cancer since two and half years.And the illness seems to be pretty aggressive these days. I'm now lying on hospital bed, with ups and downs everyday. This leads me to the question my death in months... weeks... I don't know (and don't want to know) how many.Why talking here on the list, would you say ?I'm not saying "Farewell" for now ! And I'm not decided to.But I have to consider the legacy of all the little stuff I had done using gnustep and that could be lost if some day if my GitHub account would be closed.I wonder if some of the themes I've modified or created could be transferred to another GitHub account or even the gnustep project itself.1° Etoile themesThose very nice themes had been created for Etoile and can't be found online anymore. I've modified them by including my proper set of Icons : RikIcons. These icons could be pretty easily removed to get the vanilla themes again. Their place is on he gnustep repo or maybe in GAP.2° the Sombre themeThis one is my sweet little pet. I created it almost from scratch, to mimic MacOS dark theme and I'm pretty proud of the result. I'd like to see it included on the gnustep repo on github. I've got a more advanced development branch named "binary" with rounded buttons and sliders. There is a couple of issue that prevent me from merging to the master branch (see my last mail on the list).If it can't be part of the gnustep repo, where could it stay if my github repo disappears ?3° Rik IconsI had created it for the rik theme, maintained by Alessandro Sangiuliano : https://github.com/AlessandroSangiuliano/rik.themeAll my themes use this set of icons, but the set ifself has evolved recently. It's a lot more "mac" set of icon than the gnustep's ones. It has been a big piece of work for me. Maybe some of you could think it could be saved from the lost either.4° GWorkspaceThere are a couple of patches I need to send to Riccardo :
- Shortcuts for repetitive tasks I use everyday
- White labels on the desktop
5°WindowMaker session and TopBarThis one has some stuff to set up a "mac-like" gnustep session. It could be usefull to somebodyThis little app puts a bar at the top of the screen under the menubar of gnustep (when used in mac mode), mimicing a persistant menubar for non gnustep app also. It is mentionned in WindowMaker-session repo.Cheers,Bertrand Dekoninck
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