ANN: GWorkspace 1.0

[Riccardo Mottola]

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

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