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GWorkspace

GWorkspace is a Workspace Manager for GNUstep.

Contents

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

GWorkspace is a clone of the NeXT workspace manager with some added features as spatial viewing, an advanced database based search system, etc.

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 can be downloaded here.

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 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:

Maintainer

The current maintainer is Riccardo Mottola. The original author was Enrico Sersale sadly, Enrico has passed away and will be greatly missed.

GWorkspace now is maintaned by the GNUstep community.