after more than 12 years of maintaining Gnome-Commander, I think it’s time to leave the field to other players.
This work has been a valuable experience for me that I will cherish forever. However, as it happens in life, other projects have become my focus in recent years. As a result, I am rarely able to give this project the attention it deserves.
However, this is more necessary than ever, as work is currently underway in the background to translate the source code from C++ to Rust. Gnome-Commander will thus take a huge step forward. An active developer has already done an incredible amount for this project and I want to make sure that everything continues to run smoothly.
Therefore I am looking for a successor for maintaining Gnome-Commander. If you are interested, please contact me so that we can discuss the next steps.
Thanks for all your help and expertise in developing this app over the years. I hope you can find a maintainer. If you wish we can also publicize on social media - reddit, gnome account on mastodon.
Out of curiosity, is still using the same design pattern and are you using GTK2 as it is shown in the screenshot ?
Great idea! Yes, I would be happy if you could publicize that. Thank you
The screenshots are a bit outdated. In the recent months @andy128k has done an incredible job to migrate the application from gtk2 over to gtk4 in the master branch. As the whole work is also connected with the Rust migration, the next major release date is not planned yet.
Well, I don’t think that a 100% migration to Rust is a prerequisite for a new release. Quite opposite, plugins benefit from being written in C/C++ as they may use other libraries w/o a need to have Rust bindings.
Thx Andre! Very appreciated. Will merge once I’m back from PTO. I saw the screenshot. If you like you can also merge yourself. (I currently don’t have access to GitLab…)
(I currently don’t have access to GitLab…)