A GNUstep template to replace WMText dockapp

Patrick CARDONA <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:30:40 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.general
Message-ID <358b975a295d291b697e111374d05efb@pi500>
Hello,

I am working on an application to replace 'WMText' dockapp with a more 
powerfull and consistent GNUstep template.

The goal is to create then a collection of little GNUstep apps to 
improve the ones I am using: Weather, System Package Updater, Date and 
  Birthdays, Memory...
Enhancements will namely permit badge notifications and interaction to 
launch related actions or panels if needed.

Stages:

1- Studiing **batmon** code (by Riccardo Mottola) and creating a model 
from it with a static "Hello" text displayed on the AppIcon: done.

2- Adding a simple menu to permit later adding Help and related 
Actions: done.

3- Adding dynamic text from an NStask output to retrieve external 
infos (weather) or internal system infos (updates...): work in 
progress.
- I am working from this tutorial:  
wwww.nongnu.org/gstutorial/en/ch19.html: Non-blocking I/O

4- Adding badge notification: to be done.

5- Adding related actions: to be done.

Kind Regards,
Patrick

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