GWorkspace

GWorkspace is a Workspace Manager for GNUstep.

Contents

[ Introduction | State | Documentation | Download GWorkspace | Install GWorkspace | Maintainer | Related links ]

Introduction

GWorkspace is a reimplementation of the NeXT workspace manager with some added features as spatial viewing, an advanced database based search system, etc. Inspired by OpenStep's Workspace it adds a Fiend and a TabbedShelf as a multipurpose launcher and container; while inspired by Mac's Finder it offers a Dock.

State

Currently GWorkspace is a very stable application and can be used as your file manager for daily usage.

Documentation

The GWorkspace User Guide by

Dennis Leeuw (dleeuw at made-it dot com)

is available here

Download Gworkspace

The latest version of Gworkspace (v1.0.0, released 24th December 2021) can be download here.

Access code on GIT repository by:

git clone https://github.com/gnustep/apps-gworkspace.git

Install Gworkspace

cd into the GWorkspace source directory and:

./configure
make
make install

Sqlite is needed only needed if GWMetadata is enabled through --enable-gwmetadata. Thus starting with version 0.8.8, SQLite is no longer a hard dependency. GWMetadata is the metadata indexing and search system which includes the live folders functionality.

If you are on Linux and want to use the new inotify-based fswatcher, you can pass --with-inotify to configure.

To enable all the GWorkspace features also needed are:

• The PDFKit framework (version >= 0.9) enables content-preview for PDF documents.
  Essentially framework embedding xpdf, it is maintained at the GNUstep Application Project. PDFKit is needed to build the PDF content inspector (preview) and to extract metadata from pdf files.
• System Preferences If you install the GWMetadata system, SystemPreferences is needed to configure it.

Users Contributions

SGContent Inspector by Charles Philip Chan (cpchan at sympatico dot ca)
A contents Inspector that can play Ogg Vorbis, mp3, speex, flac, shorten, voc, midi, and mod files.

VCF Inspector by Charles Philip Chan (cpchan at sympatico dot ca)
A contents Inspector for VCF files. It is now distributed with Addresses itself.

RPM Inspector by Charles Philip Chan (cpchan at sympatico dot ca)
A contents Inspector to see the contents of rpm packages.

IMImage Inspector by Charles Philip Chan (cpchan at sympatico dot ca)
An Inspector used to preview many types of graphics formats not currently supported by NSImage. It can also by used to preview Type 1 and Truetype fonts.

Maintainer

The current maintainer is Riccardo Mottola. The original author has been Enrico Sersale), who sadly passed away.