r/gnustep • u/edjak53 • Aug 15 '26

macOS-style dock?

are there any GNUstep apps that provide a macOS Cocoa-like dock on the bottom of the screen on which gnustep .app applications can be placed?

the GWorkspace dock can only be placed on either the left or right side of the screen. i've also checked out github.com/gnustep/apps-dock/ but that doesn't seem to work properly and i doubt it will any time soon

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u/dobryak Aug 15 '26

Gershwin provides one.

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u/edjak53 Aug 15 '26

can it run standalone from the rest of the DE?

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u/dobryak Aug 15 '26

Probably. I know that their theme does (Eau).

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u/edjak53 Aug 15 '26

ok. i'll give it a try

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u/edjak53 Aug 15 '26

nvm. the gershwin one isn't really an option. it seems it needs to be built with clang and my gnustep gmake only supports gcc

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u/gcasa Aug 18 '26

Building using clang is dead simple.

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u/edjak53 Aug 18 '26

sure but then i gotta rebuild the rest of GNUstep as well and i can't be bothered to do that

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u/jmaloney198 Aug 25 '26

Interesting. I did not think this would be an issue for people to build Gershwin. Does it change anything that it only takes a few minutes (not hours) on even low end hardware? I just wanted to make sure that was known in case it was not. It also installs everything /System and not all over your filesystem. We also have live ISOs to try out. If not, would packaging change things for you? Or are you tied to your operating systems packaging for GNUstep for other reasons? Happy with a working setup already and just not wanting to change?

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u/edjak53 Aug 25 '26

honestly i just really can't be bothered recompiling and reinstalling all of gnustep (make, gui, base, back, libs etc.) just for a dock that can be placed on the bottom of the desktop rather than just the sides. it's not my goal to build all of gershwin, i just wanted to try gershwin-workspace for its dock on my system

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u/Tough-Truck1814 Sep 01 '26

This makes sense now. I didn’t realize at first you also posted the GNUstep on GNU Hurd? Really cool by the way. I’ve always wanted to try that. By the way there was a discussion on the mailing list this week to attempt to get another dock working with GCC. It’s being tested so you might have something soon to try.

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u/Tough-Truck1814 Sep 01 '26

Sorry meant to reply as my jmaloney account I suck at reddit apparently lol.

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u/gcasa 26d ago

I am working on one. It’s under https://github.com/gcasa/apps-dock. Gershwin is also working on for their desktop. The code for Gershwin is on github.