Re: ANN: GWorkspace 1.0

[Fred Kiefer]

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 <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>:
> 
> GWORKSPACE 1.0
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> 
> 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.
> 
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