GWorkspace is a Workspace Manager for GNUstep.

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Dennis Leeuw (dleeuw at made-it dot com)

GWorkspace is a clone of the NeXT workspace manager with some added features as spatial viewing, an advanced database based search system, etc.Currentlyis a very stable application and can be used as your file manager for daily usage.byis available here The latest version of Gworkspace (v0.9.4, released July 09 2016) can be download here

Access to SVN repository by:

svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/apps/gworkspace/trunk

./configure

make

make install



cd into the GWorkspace source directory and:

Sqlite is needed only needed if GWMetadata is enabled through --enable-gwmetadata . Thus 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 you need also:



The PDFKit framework (version >= 0.9).

Currently it is available only as CVS check-out in the GNUstep Application Project. A release is almost ready.

PDFKit is needed to build the pdf contents inspector and to extract metadata from pdf files.

Currently it is available only as CVS check-out in the GNUstep Application Project. A release is almost ready. PDFKit is needed to build the pdf contents inspector 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.

The current maintainer is Riccardo Mottola. The original author is(enrico at fibernet dot ro)

GWorkspace now is maintaned by the GNUstep community.