Re: ANN: GWorkspace 0.6.5

[Chad Hardin]

Thanks for the HAL link, it looks very cool indeed.  It even looks like 
is being actively developed!  Can't beat that with a stick.

This looks like Framework wrapping stuff to me, I smell a GSHAL or 
something....

Actually, I think that there are a whole slew of frameworks that can 
start to be bundled together that are more desktop orientated.  Outside 
of the scope of GNUstep itself, as they say.

Is that not what "Backbone" is? A collection of GNUstep softwares 
centered around desktop and not the API itself?   What happened to 
that?  I see the web page is still there, but is there any steam there?


Chad


On Jun 9, 2004, at 2:21 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Enrico Sersale wrote:
> > To answer also to the other mails in this thread:
> > don't expect this dock to become a full replacement for the 
> > WindowMaker's one; this, simply, is not possible. To get this, you'd 
> > need a kind of "NSWorkspace - workspace application - window manager" 
> > object that doesn't exist.
> > If you read NSWorkspace.h, it is evident that, in its original 
> > conception, this class implies the existence of a workspace 
> > application; but, in our implementation, this is not possible.
> > Said this, I must add that something in this direction can be done; 
> > the introduction of the _workspaceApplication ivar in NSWorkspace, 
> > for example, has helped me very much; a daemon keeping track of the 
> > running applications, as Chad says in a other mail, would be an other 
> > step in the right direction. And, take a look in Desktop.m; I've a 
> > full implementation of all the NSWorkspace methods that mount and 
> > umount volumes; actually it is a bit too linux-specific but, with 
> > some ifdefs in the part that parse /etc/mtab, I think that could be 
> > moved in NSWorkspace.
>
> This looks nice, why don't you move it over. The onyl part I don't 
> like about it is the getting of the removable devices from a 
> environmant variable. This looks wrong to me, we should get this from 
> fstab or mtab. My Linux 2.6 has the type "subfs" for these devices. I 
> cannot remember how 2.4 treated them. This solution isn't any more 
> Linux specific than the current one. For something more general we 
> will need to wait for HAL (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal)
>
> Fred
>
>
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