Re: ANN: GWorkspace 1.0

[Gregory Casamento]

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 <geroldr@bluewin.ch> 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

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Subject:	ANN: GWorkspace 1.0
Date:	Sat, 25 Dec 2021 01:37:36 +0100
From:	Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>
Organization:	GNUstep
To:	info-gnustep@gnu.org, discuss-gnustep@gnu.org, info-gnu@gnu.org
CC:	anne.dekoninck@free.fr

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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