ANN: GWorkspace 0.9.4

[Riccardo Mottola]

GWORKSPACE 0.9.4


After long hours of hacking, I am pleased to announce a new release of
GWorkspace. I must thank Bertrand, Andres and others who both motivated
and helped me to work on the translation work.


The major news in this release, among many bug fixes, are:

* more complete and corrected translations in major languages (Italian,
French, Spanish and German)

* new thumbnail management: it is no longer a "service" managing a
separate executable, but it is a built-in function executing in separate
worker threads. This means less overhead, more speed especially on
multi-CPU systems and ability to run on more than one directory at once

* the image content inspector no longer spawns a worker program, but
uses an internal worker thread: quicker, less resource hungry and more
reliable DO

* support for new themable icons (requires latest GUI version and
up-to-date themes) like Movies and also some improved packaged icons

* localized names for special folders (e.g. Desktop, Downloads
Images...). The real name must be in English but it will be displayed
localized in the Workspace

* improved resizing algorithms, fix handling of alpha channels and less
common byte per samples


Major bugfixes:

* major fixes in icon thumbnails and linked items

* major fixes in the search tool

* improved disk mounting/unmounting, disk management enabled without Desktop

* Dock icon ordering fixed

* listen to theme change notifications

* improved build system (uses gnustep make configured compiler) and more
checks for portability

* improved portability, including compilation on windows


GWorkspace is GNUstep's File Manager and Desktop the best one around!

Learn more here:

http://www.gnustep.org/experience/GWorkspace.html



Riccardo