GWorkspace and file system problems and portability issues.

[Riccardo]

Hello all,

having setup a test box (x86 running FreeBSD 5.3) which runs exclusively 
gnustep and loads GWorkspace at X startup (so exiting that will close 
everything). I think it should provide me with the closest OPENSTEP 
experience I can gain at the current state of things.

I noticed a few quirks though:
- available disk space is completely bogus in gworkspace ! it reports 
120GB or more of available disk space. This is bogus, the whole disk is 
capped to 32GB.... I have no special partitions, AFAIK. (free space is 
reported bogus on solaris too, since there user directories are mounted 
from the same file system to itself in a directory, if you use a single 
partition...)

- /etc/mtab poses a portability problem: it does not exist in FreeBSD 
and being asked for it every time at startup is tedious.

- my home folder is nto recognized as such! I get no small house icon 
near it, even if I drop it in the shelf of each viewer which is my 
custom. It could be related that /home is symlinked to /usr/home in 
freebsd? and gworkspace uses some custom way to check for it? or gnustep 
itself has a flaw there

cheers,
   Riccardo

PS: I noticed that CVS version of gnsutep has lately gdnc problems, I 
get reports of the applications being unable to contact it. If I choose 
ignore, everything works. This happens to me both on FreeBSD as on Linux 
(both x86)