Introduction

Workspaces lets you configure and quickly launch all you need to work on a project. It can open in a second different instances of code, a specific website and a directory.

Motivation

I normally work on different projects throught the day, and some of them require a lot of apps to have open, they have different urls etc.

With Workspaces I'm able with a click to open all the stuff I need for a project. I can also check links for github, isues etc for the projects.

I used to use the Workspaces app for mac and I made it very similar.

Installation

This app is available on the elementary OS AppCenter and Flathub.

Install it from source

You can of course download and install this app from source.

Dependencies

Ensure you have these dependencies installed

• granite
• gtk+-3.0
• json-glib-1.0
• libgee-0.8
• meson
• vala
• ninja

Install, build and run

Elementary OS

# install elementary-sdk, meson and ninja 
sudo apt install elementary-sdk meson ninja
# clone repository
git clone [email protected]:DevAlien/workspaces.git workspaces
# cd to dir
cd workspaces
# run meson
meson build --prefix=/usr
# cd to build, build and test
cd build
sudo ninja install && com.github.devalien.workspaces

Ubuntu based

#Install meson
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-setuptools \
                       python3-wheel ninja-build
sudo  pip3 install meson
#Install libraries
sudo apt-get install libjson-glib-dev libgranite-dev libgee-0.8-dev libgtk-3-dev valac
flatpak install --user flathub io.elementary.BaseApp//juno-19.08

# clone repository
git clone [email protected]:DevAlien/workspaces.git workspaces
# cd to dir
cd workspaces
# run meson
meson build --prefix=/usr
# cd to build, build and test
cd build
sudo ninja install && com.github.devalien.workspaces

Generating pot file

# after setting up meson build
cd build

# generates pot file
sudo ninja com.github.devalien.workspaces-pot

# to regenerate and propagate changes to every po file
sudo ninja com.github.devalien.workspaces-update-po

Thanks/Credits

• Workspaces Where I got the idea.
• Tuner The creator of this app inspired me to build one myself.
• Clipped I took inspiration for the Quick Launch from this app.
• AppEditor Copied the edit part of the app, I will iterate over it in the next releases.