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(→‎Application list: Duplicated Example to have it at the top & bottom.)
(→‎Application list: Added PICSimLab, SPICE simulator, icon editor, font editor to the table)
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! Linux !! Windows !! FreeBSD !! macos
! Linux !! Windows !! FreeBSD !! macos
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| Category || Subcategory || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Example|Example]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
| Category || Subcategory || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Example|Example]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
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| Graphics || Vector 2D || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Inkscape|Inkscape]] || Yes || Not yet || Not yet || WIP<sup>70% 2021-01-27</sup> || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 90% || [https://inkscape.org/ Site]
| Graphics || Vector 2D || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Inkscape|Inkscape]] || Yes || Not yet || Not yet || WIP<sup>70% 2021-01-27</sup> || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 90% || [https://inkscape.org/ Site]
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| Graphics || Raster 2D || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/GIMP|GIMP]] || Yes || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://www.gimp.org/ Site]
| Graphics || Raster 2D || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/GIMP|GIMP]] || Yes || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://www.gimp.org/ Site]
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| Graphics || Raster 2D || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ImageMagick|ImageMagick]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://imagemagick.org/ Site]
| Graphics || Raster 2D || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ImageMagick|ImageMagick]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://imagemagick.org/ Site]
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| Electronics || Circuit design || [[KicadStepUp Workbench]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://github.com/easyw/kicadStepUpMod/ Code] [https://github.com/easyw/kicadStepUpMod/raw/master/demo/kicadStepUp-cheat-sheet.pdf Doc]
| Electronics || Circuit design || [[KicadStepUp Workbench]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://github.com/easyw/kicadStepUpMod/ Code] [https://github.com/easyw/kicadStepUpMod/raw/master/demo/kicadStepUp-cheat-sheet.pdf Doc]
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| Browser || Web Browser || [[Web Workbench]] || Yes{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|7|webconvert}} || Not yet || Yes{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || Yes{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || Yes{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || Yes?{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || 0% || [https://webkit.org/ WebKit]
| Browser || Web Browser || [[Web Workbench]] || Yes{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|7|webconvert}} || Not yet || Yes{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || Yes{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || Yes{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || Yes?{{ref|6|webbrowser}} || 0% || [https://webkit.org/ WebKit]
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| Programming || Debugger || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Gammaray|GammaRay™]] || WIP<sup>30% 2021-01-31</sup> || No{{ref|1|gammarayno}} || No{{ref|1|gammarayno}} || No{{ref|1|gammarayno}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://www.kdab.com/development-resources/qt-tools/gammaray/ Site]
| Programming || Debugger || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Gammaray|GammaRay™]] || WIP<sup>30% 2021-01-31</sup> || No{{ref|1|gammarayno}} || No{{ref|1|gammarayno}} || No{{ref|1|gammarayno}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://www.kdab.com/development-resources/qt-tools/gammaray/ Site]
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| Programming || RAD || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/QtDesigner|QtDesigner]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Site]
| Programming || RAD || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/QtDesigner|QtDesigner]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Site]
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| Math || CAS{{ref|3|cas}} || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Maxima|Maxima]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://maxima.sourceforge.io/ Site]
| Math || CAS{{ref|3|cas}} || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Maxima|Maxima]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://maxima.sourceforge.io/ Site]
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| Graphics || Vector 3D || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Blender|Blender]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.blender.org/ Site]
| Graphics || Vector 3D || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Blender|Blender]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.blender.org/ Site]
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| Reader || PDF reader || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To choose]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || No || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
| Reader || PDF reader || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To choose]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || No || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
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| Graphics || 3D sulpting || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To choose]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
| Graphics || 3D sulpting || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To choose]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
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| Office || Spreadsheet || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeCalc|LibreOffice Calc]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
| Office || Spreadsheet || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeCalc|LibreOffice Calc]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
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| Office || Word processor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeWriter|LibreOffice Writer]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
| Office || Word processor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeWriter|LibreOffice Writer]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
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| Office || Word processor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LaTeX|LaTeX]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://tug.org/texlive/ TeX Live]
| Office || Word processor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LaTeX|LaTeX]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://tug.org/texlive/ TeX Live]
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| Office || Equation editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LaTeX|LaTeX]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://tug.org/texlive/ TeX Live]
| Office || Equation editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LaTeX|LaTeX]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://tug.org/texlive/ TeX Live]
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| Office || Word processor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LyX|LyX]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.lyx.org/ Site]
| Office || Word processor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LyX|LyX]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.lyx.org/ Site]
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| Office || Equation editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LyX|LyX]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.lyx.org/ Site]
| Office || Equation editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LyX|LyX]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.lyx.org/ Site]
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| Office || Word processor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeWriter|LibreOffice Writer]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
| Office || Word processor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeWriter|LibreOffice Writer]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
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| Office || Presentation || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeImpress|LibreOffice Impress]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
| Office || Presentation || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeImpress|LibreOffice Impress]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
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| Office || Presentation || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LaTeX|Beamer]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://ctan.org/pkg/beamer Site]
| Office || Presentation || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LaTeX|Beamer]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://ctan.org/pkg/beamer Site]
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| Office || Equations || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfiiceMath|LibreOffice Math]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
| Office || Equations || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfiiceMath|LibreOffice Math]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|4|tbcall}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
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| Database || Relational || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeBase|LibreOffice Base]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
| Database || Relational || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/LibreOfficeBase|LibreOffice Base]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.libreoffice.org/ Site]
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| Database || Relational || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/SQLite3|SQLite3]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.sqlite.org/ Site]
| Database || Relational || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/SQLite3|SQLite3]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.sqlite.org/ Site]
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| Graphics || Terrain generator || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/WorldMachine|World Machine]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.world-machine.com/ Site]
| Graphics || Terrain generator || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/WorldMachine|World Machine]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.world-machine.com/ Site]
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| Graphics || Terrain generator || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Geomorph|Geomorph]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [http://geomorph.sourceforge.net/ Site]
| Graphics || Terrain generator || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Geomorph|Geomorph]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [http://geomorph.sourceforge.net/ Site]
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| Utilities || File manager || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To Choose]] || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|5|filemgr}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
| Utilities || File manager || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To Choose]] || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|5|filemgr}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
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| Utilities || Disk usage || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/FileLight|FileLight]] || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|5|filemgr}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://apps.kde.org/en_GB/filelight Site] [https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ Other]
| Utilities || Disk usage || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/FileLight|FileLight]] || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|5|filemgr}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://apps.kde.org/en_GB/filelight Site] [https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ Other]
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| Utilities || Disk usage || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Baobab|Baobab]] || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|5|filemgr}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer Site] [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/baobab Code]
| Utilities || Disk usage || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Baobab|Baobab]] || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|5|filemgr}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer Site] [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/baobab Code]
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| Audio || Filters || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Sox|Sox]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [http://sox.sourceforge.net/ Site]
| Audio || Waveform || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Sox|Sox]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [http://sox.sourceforge.net/ Site]
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| Utilities || Text editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Mousepad|Mousepad]] || Yes || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|2|mousepadtools}} || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://github.com/codebrainz/mousepad Code] [https://docs.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/start Doc]
| Audio || MIDI || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To Choose]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://example.com/ Site]
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| Programming || Code editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/VIM|VIM]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.vim.org/ Site]
| Audio || Waveform || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To Choose: a DAW or .VST support]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://example.com/ Site]
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| Programming || Code editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Emacs|Emacs]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Site]
| Audio || MIDI || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To Choose: a DAW or .VST support]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://example.com/ Site]
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| Programming || Code editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Kate|Kate]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://kate-editor.org/ Site]
| Utilities || Text editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Mousepad|Mousepad]] || Yes || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|2|mousepadtools}} || Yes || Not yet? || Not yet? || Not yet? || 20% || [https://github.com/codebrainz/mousepad Code] [https://docs.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/start Doc]
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| Category || Subcategory || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Example|Example]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
| Programming || Code editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/VIM|VIM]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.vim.org/ Site]
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| Programming || Code editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Emacs|Emacs]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Site]
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| Programming || Code editor || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Kate|Kate]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://kate-editor.org/ Site]
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| Electronics || Simulator || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/PICSimLab|PICSimLab]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet{{ref|8|parametricfonts}} || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://lcgamboa.github.io/ Site] [https://github.com/lcgamboa/picsim PICSim] [https://github.com/lcgamboa/picsimlab Lab]
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| Electronics || Simulator || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/QUCS|QUCS or direct (p)SPICE simultion]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [http://qucs.sourceforge.net/]
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| Graphics || Font || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To choose: font editor]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
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| Graphics || Icon || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/ToChoose|To choose: icon editor]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
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| Category || Subcategory || [[User:Suzanne.soy/XternalApps_Workbench/Example|Example]] || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || Not yet || 0% || [https://www.example.com/ Example]
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{{footnote|6|webbrowser}} Lucky us, FreeCAD already embeds a web browser :)<br/>
{{footnote|6|webbrowser}} Lucky us, FreeCAD already embeds a web browser :)<br/>
{{footnote|7|webconvert}} e.g. conversion from LaTeX / .docx to .html is possible<br/>
{{footnote|7|webconvert}} e.g. conversion from LaTeX / .docx to .html is possible<br/>
{{footnote|8|parametricfonts}} The goal is, of course, to obtain parametric families of fonts


== Architecture ==
== Architecture ==

Revision as of 04:59, 1 February 2021

The XternalApps Workbench offers easy access to various applications from within FreeCAD.

An XternalApp may:

  • Be used to open objects of the application's native datatype (e.g. Inkscape being used to open, edit and save .svg files embedded in a FreeCAD .FCStd document)
  • Be used to open objects of the native/interoperability FreeCAD type (e.g. Inkscape being used to open, edit and save native FreeCAD curves)
  • Be opened inside a FreeCAD tab, for a better look&feel.
  • Offer plug-ins and tools which can be used directly from within FreeCAD as parametric objects which transform their input (e.g. an Inkscape plug-in being applied to a FreeCAD curve, when the curve is edited the plug-in's output is automatically updated)

Other features:

Application list

With great power comes great wiring

Category Subcategory Application Available Open objects Convert Plug-ins & Tools Open in tab % Info Site
Linux Windows FreeBSD macos
Category Subcategory Example Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Example
Graphics Vector 2D Inkscape Yes Not yet Not yet WIP70% 2021-01-27 Yes Not yet? Not yet? Not yet? 90% Site
Graphics Raster 2D GIMP Yes Not yet Not yet Not yet Yes Not yet? Not yet? Not yet? 20% Site
Graphics Raster 2D ImageMagick Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Yes Not yet? Not yet? Not yet? 20% Site
Electronics Circuit design KicadStepUp Workbench Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Yes Not yet? Not yet? Not yet? 20% Code Doc
Browser Web Browser Web Workbench Yes6 Not yet Not yet7 Not yet Yes6 Yes6 Yes6 Yes?6 0% WebKit
Programming Debugger GammaRay™ WIP30% 2021-01-31 No1 No1 No1 Not yet Not yet Not yet? Not yet? 20% Site
Programming RAD QtDesigner Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Math CAS3 Maxima Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Graphics Vector 3D Blender Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Reader PDF reader To choose Not yet Not yet Not yet No Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Example
Graphics 3D sulpting To choose Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Example
Office Spreadsheet LibreOffice Calc Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Office Word processor LibreOffice Writer Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Office Word processor LaTeX Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% TeX Live
Office Equation editor LaTeX Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% TeX Live
Office Word processor LyX Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Office Equation editor LyX Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Office Word processor LibreOffice Writer Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Office Presentation LibreOffice Impress Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Office Presentation Beamer Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Office Equations LibreOffice Math Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet4 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Database Relational LibreOffice Base Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Database Relational SQLite3 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Graphics Terrain generator World Machine Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Graphics Terrain generator Geomorph Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site
Utilities File manager To Choose Not yet Not yet5 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Example
Utilities Disk usage FileLight Not yet Not yet5 Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet 0% Site Other
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1 The GammaRay™ integration aims to open GammaRay™ to inspect the FreeCAD Gui, or to open an XternalApp with GammaRay™ already attached. Embedding GammaRay™-specific files within a FreeCAD document doesn't seem very useful, so it's not a priority.
2 Mousepad has very few tools, but it would be a good exercise on how to access the tools of a GTK application
3 Computer Algebra System
4 In addition to toolbars and presence as objects in the tree, it should be possible e.g. to refer to properties of other objects from within a LaTeX document, and to annotate the resulting PDF or document so that the graphs and other figures can be extracted and included in other documents
5 Use a KIOSlave or FUSE to browse the tree structure of the document using a file browser UI; allow copying external documents in and copying objects out. When an object appears in multiple locations in the tree, beware of how to represent this as a single file appearing in multiple places… probably using symlinks or .desktop shortcuts.
6 Lucky us, FreeCAD already embeds a web browser :)
7 e.g. conversion from LaTeX / .docx to .html is possible
8 The goal is, of course, to obtain parametric families of fonts

Architecture

Input parameters

The parameters of the plug-ins from Inkscape etc. are described using an XForms XML file. The XForms XML format can be used to describe forms and mainly targets web pages.


,-----------------------.
|   Inkscape plug-ins   +----,
`-----------------------’    `--> ,--------------------------------.          ,-------------------------------. 
                                  | Generic XForms API description |  --+-->  | FreeCAD XternalApps Workbench |
,-----------------------.    ,--> `--------------------------------’          `-------------------------------’
|     Gimp plug-ins     +----’
`-----------------------’    :
                             :
           ...           ....’

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xforms:model>
    <xforms:instance>
      <my:tool>
        <my:svgfile/>
        <my:option1/>
        <my:option2>default value</my:option2>
        <my:option3>bar</my:option3>
      </my:tool>
    </xforms:instance>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:svgfile" type="mime:image/svg+xml" required="true()"/>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:option1" type="xsd:decimal" required="true()"/>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:option2" type="xsd:string" required="true()"/>
  </xforms:model>
</XternalApps:tool>

TODO: use an XSD file instead of an xforms:model and xrofms:instance, and just link the model + instance to the XSD schema definition

Application-specific parameter extractor

A short application-specific stub is in charge of extracting the information from the plug-ins and converting it into this universal format. It is represented by a small rectangle attached to the right of the applications.


,-----------------------,-.
|   Inkscape plug-ins   | +----,
`-----------------------'-’    `--> ,--------------------------------.          ,-------------------------------. 
                                    | Generic XForms API description |  --+-->  | FreeCAD XternalApps Workbench |
,-----------------------,-.    ,--> `--------------------------------’          `-------------------------------’
|     Gimp plug-ins     | +----’
`-----------------------'-’    :
                             :
           ...           ....’

For most applications, it's just a matter of iterating over the list of plug-ins available in the application's installation directory or configuration directory, and exctacting the info from an existing file format. For example, Inkscape plug-ins are described by .inx files which are XML files with contents similar to that of our file format.

Output values

The output of the tool is described using a model just like the input model of XForms; it is in a way a read-only XForms model instance which is returned by the tool.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xforms:model>
    <xforms:instance>
      <my:tool-output>
        <my:output-svgfile/>
        <my:output-exitcode/>
      </my:tool-output>
    </xforms:instance>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:output-svgfile" type="mime:image/svg+xml"/>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:output-exitcode" type="xsd:decimal" required="true()"/>
  </xforms:model>
  
</XternalApps:tool>

User interface

The user interface is described in a way that leaves a lot of freedom to the implementer. The subset of XForms which we use is mainly concerned with giving names to the fields of the internal model, and grouping them. In particular, we do not include anything about hiding or disabling fields based on the contents of other fields. Indeed, a nodal interface could map these form elements to input and output pins, and once these are connected disabling or enabling them would make little sense; furthermore the data being sent to those pins could evolve with time, but the connections must persist.

A future version will likely make use of variants and records to structure data in a way which allows the description of simple combinations of allowed parameters, and can still be displayed as a pipeline of transformations (e.g. first create an instance of one of the cases of the variant, then pass it as a parameter). See [[#XForms subset and interoperability|XForms subset and interoperability] for more details on how this constitutes a rudimentary type system and why we don't want to rush to add one with the wrong features.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xforms:group>
    <xforms:label>Page 1</xforms:label>
    <xforms:input ref="my:option1" label="Option One ∀"/>
    <xforms:input ref="my:option2" label="Option Two π"/>
    <xforms:upload ref="my:svgfile" accept="image/svg+xml">
      <xforms:label>Input image</xforms:label>
      <xforms:filename ref="@filename" />
    </xforms:upload>
  </xforms:group>
  <xforms:group>
    <xforms:label>Page 2</xforms:label>
    <xforms:input ref="my:option2" label="Option Two"/>
    <xforms:select1 ref="my:option3" label="Option Three">
      <xforms:item label="Foo label" value="foo"/>
      <xforms:item label="Bar label" value="bar"/>
    </xforms:select1>
  </xforms:group>
</XternalApps:tool>

XForms subset, interoperability and types

Only a subset of the XForms file format is used. Since this format should be usable by various applications other than FreeCAD, keeping it simple seems wise. For example, as mentioned in [[#User interface|User interface]], a nodal interface could map these form elements to input and output pins on nodes, any unnecessary complexity in the form file format would result in a confusing user interface, or, in the case of form elements which are conditionally enabled based on the contents of other forms, would require some form of type system to check whether a pin connection should be allowed based on already-connected pins. Designing a type system adequate for inter-application communication is not a simple feat, and is a task best left for a future iteration.

                                                                          ,...                ...
                                                                          :     
                                                                          :
                                                                          :     ,-------------------------------.
                                                                          ,-->  | Other software e.g. nodal UI  |
,-----------------------,-.                                               :     `-------------------------------’
|   Inkscape plug-ins   | +----,                                          :
`-----------------------'-’    `--> ,--------------------------------.    :     ,-------------------------------. 
                                    | Generic XForms API description |  --+-->  | FreeCAD XternalApps Workbench |
,-----------------------,-.    ,--> `--------------------------------’          `-------------------------------’
|     Gimp plug-ins     | +----’
`-----------------------'-’    :
                               :
           ...             ....’

Command-line

Since the standard web APIs (e.g. POST requests and form encodings) are not suitable for invocation of command-line applications, a few extra tags are used to describe the command-line API.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <XternalApps:command medhod="exec">
    <XternalApps:accepts>
      <-- Default parameter-passing style -->
      <XternalApps:default ref=".//*" style="double-dash">
      <-- Exceptions -->
      <XternalApps:exception ref="my:svgfile" style="pipe" />
    </XternalApps:accepts>
    <XternalApps:returns>
      <-- This example does not use a default output-returning style -->
      <-- Exceptions -->
      <XternalApps:exception ref="my:output-svgfile" style="pipe" />
      <XternalApps:exception ref="my:output-exitcode" style="exitcode" />
    </XternalApps:returns>
  </XternalApps:command>
  
</XternalApps:tool>

Future extensions could support maintaining the "connection" with a tool by piping several batches of arguments to a single process. This will be useful for opening a document in an external application, embeding its window, and sending commands to the external application.

Tool metadata

In lieu of an HTML page, a few other tags define a tooltip, icon, description etc.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <XternalApps:name>MyTool</XternalApps:name>
  <XternalApps:tooltip>This tool is my tool, it is very useful in a toolset.</XternalApps:tooltip>
  <XternalApps:icon>MyTool.svg</XternalApps:icon>
  <XternalApps:extended-description>
    Lots of text,
    blah blha bhal
  </XternalApps:extended-description>
</XternalApps:tool>

Files

The XML description of a tool is split into several files:

  • The input model + form elements
  • The command-line generation, which takes an input XForms model and produces a command + arguments
  • The output extraction, which takes the output of the command and produces an output XForms model
  • The output model + read-only form elements

The input model -> command-line generation and output extraction -> output model communication paths could be done by any means; usually this will happen by simply passing a pointer, but a web version could encode the input, transfer it over HTTP, and have it decoded on the server where the command-line generation happens (the reverse path would be followed for returning the output).

In other words, it does not matter how the form contents are transferred between the user interface and the service responsible for execution, as long as the model arrives intact after the transfer.

This also ensures that it is possible to e.g. easily substitute the command-line generation part with a platform-specific one.

Generic extractors

In an ideal world, all existing applications would offer some form of command-line API or scripting API to invoke each and every one of their user-facing features (buttons, tools, menu items etc.), and the list of these features would be easy to query statically or dynamically, and their options would be described in a consistent fashion, even if that format was application-specific.

The real world is far from that, our running example, Inkscape, offers just this for its plug-ins, but Inkscape's built-in tools are available through two command-line APIs (a migration is ongoing), and the command-line flag to list all available commands does not indicate the expected arguments for each command, let alone a proper description etc. Most tools don't do better, and quite a few can't even brag about having a part of their API well-documented.

Even though it would be possible to fill in the details by hand, it would take a huge amount of time; fortunately there is a quasi-universal interaction protocol which works for most applications: open the file, select the relevant portion, click a button, and save the file.

If only we could extract all the buttons of an application, it would be easy to generate XML tool descriptions doing the load-select-button-save sequence. By spoonfeeding small enough document fragments, the "select" part would be optional in a large number of cases.

To fulfill this goal, we will implement two libraries, GTKDynamite and QtBomb. The role of these libraries is to be loaded via LD_PRELOAD on Linux (and equivalent mechanisms on other platforms, TBD).

Once loaded, the library will access the application's main window widget, explode the application into individual tools. It will do so by finding all toolbars and menus (those tend to follow a somewhat standard structure, application-spicific directives to guide the search should be minimal), and offering remote activation of these tools.

Additionally, the GTKDynamite and QtBomb libraries will reparent the widgets into many individual windows, attaching some X11 hints to the windows, which will allow software like the XternalApplications workbenches to grab these windows and place it at their whim. In the case of FreeCAD workbenches, the single-tool windows will be grabbed using QWindow->fromWindowId, and moved to a toolbar which can be docked alongside FreeCAD's own toolbars.

Using these two libraries should allow us to access the tools of many applications at a small cost, regardless of the maturity of their scripting and command-line APIs. Additionally, it will allow us to hide or move the toolbars, in a way that lets the main window of the application contain the currently-opened document and nothing else; this will allow the windows of these applications to be seamlessly embedded within a tab or other widget.

                                                                                ,-----------------.
                                                                          ,-->  | other software  |
,-----------------------,-.                                               :     `-----------------’
|   Inkscape plug-ins   | +----,                                          :
`-----------------------'-’    `--> ,--------------------------------.    :     ,--------------------------------. 
                                    | Generic XForms API description |  --+-->  | FreeCAD XternalApps Workbench  |
,-----------------------,-.    ,--> `--------------------------------’          `--------------------------------’
|     Gimp plug-ins     | +----’
`-----------------------'-’    :
                               :
           ...             ....’
                               :
,-----------------------,-.    :
| GTK app + GTKDynamite | +----’
`-----------------------'-’    :
                             :
,-----------------------,-.    :
|    Qt app + QtBomb    | +----’
`-----------------------'-’

Prior art

We'll note here that the GTKDynamite + QtBomb trick is not specific to XternalApplications, such libraries already exist and are used to extract the main menu bar of applications amd move it to the top of the screen (this is called a "global menu"). This feature has been present for a long time on macos, though a more notable feature is the search bar which can search through an application's menus and settings, in a way exporting a complete list of features to the search facility.

Furthermore, some existing software (e.g. Suckless tabbed) which embeds windows into tabbed interfaces (or equivalently, draws window title bars as narrow tabs instead of full-width rectangles, and allows stacking these windows, see for example the [https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html#stack-tile Stack & Tile] feature of Haiku's window manager.

The idea of extracting parts of applications and embedding them elsewhere isn't new either, Haiku has [https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html#replicants Replicants], KDE has KParts, Gnome had a few [https://web.archive.org/web/20090807072219/http://library.gnome.org/devel/api# Bonobo] components, and several office suites have the ability to include parts of a document (say, a spreadsheet) into another (through mechanisms like OLE).

Statement

It is the author's opinion that the features mentioned in [[#Prior art|Prior art]] (namely tabbed groups of windows, and repositioned menus) should be the responsibility of the window manager, as it is the case in these examples; and that this responsibility should also include dockable widgets like toolbars, dockable submenus, status bars and so on.

The author will further argue that loading and saving files should be the responsibility of a desktop environment; instead of letting applications load documents, provide limited sets of tools, crash and loose our data, the software ecosystem should be built from individual tools, grouped into packages merely for convenience when downloading and installing.

The dominant approach to using application pushes users towards the following workflow:

  • Open app
  • pen document
  • Edit
  • Save
  • Close app
  • Eventually restart with another app because the first one lacked a feature (and hope it is able to import/export the file without losses)

In a system based on individual tools, where the desktop environment and window manager are in charge of tabs, toolbars and dockable widgets, the workflow switches to one which FreeCAD users are accustomed to:

  • Open document
  • Choose a set of tools (workbench)
  • Edit
  • Freely switch between sets of tools while editing the same part or different parts of the document
  • Freely open multiple documents in a single interface while still editing the first one

Complete example

input-model.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xforms:model>
    <xforms:instance>
      <my:tool>
        <my:svgfile/>
        <my:option1/>
        <my:option2>default value</my:option2>
        <my:option3>bar</my:option3>
      </my:tool>
    </xforms:instance>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:svgfile" type="mime:image/svg+xml" required="true()"/>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:option1" type="xsd:decimal" required="true()"/>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:option2" type="xsd:string" required="true()"/>
  </xforms:model>
</XternalApps:tool>

output-model.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xforms:model>
    <xforms:instance>
      <my:tool-output>
        <my:output-svgfile/>
        <my:output-exitcode/>
      </my:tool-output>
    </xforms:instance>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:output-svgfile" type="mime:image/svg+xml"/>
    <xforms:bind ref="my:output-exitcode" type="xsd:decimal" required="true()"/>
  </xforms:model>
  
</XternalApps:tool>

form.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xforms:group>
    <xforms:label>Page 1</xforms:label>
    <xforms:input ref="my:option1" label="Option One ∀"/>
    <xforms:input ref="my:option2" label="Option Two π"/>
    <xforms:upload ref="my:svgfile" accept="image/svg+xml">
      <xforms:label>Input image</xforms:label>
      <xforms:filename ref="@filename" />
    </xforms:upload>
  </xforms:group>
  <xforms:group>
    <xforms:label>Page 2</xforms:label>
    <xforms:input ref="my:option2" label="Option Two"/>
    <xforms:select1 ref="my:option3" label="Option Three">
      <xforms:item label="Foo label" value="foo"/>
      <xforms:item label="Bar label" value="bar"/>
    </xforms:select1>
  </xforms:group>
</XternalApps:tool>

command.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <XternalApps:command medhod="exec">
    <XternalApps:accepts>
      <-- Default parameter-passing style -->
      <XternalApps:default ref=".//*" style="double-dash">
      <-- Exceptions -->
      <XternalApps:exception ref="my:svgfile" style="pipe" />
    </XternalApps:accepts>
    <XternalApps:returns>
      <-- This example does not use a default output-returning style -->
      <-- Exceptions -->
      <XternalApps:exception ref="my:output-svgfile" style="pipe" />
      <XternalApps:exception ref="my:output-exitcode" style="exitcode" />
    </XternalApps:returns>
  </XternalApps:command>
  
</XternalApps:tool>

metadata.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XternalApps:tool xmlns:my="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps/myTool"
    		  xmlns:XternalApps="http://github.com/jsmaniac/XternalApps"
    		  xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    		  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <XternalApps:name>MyTool</XternalApps:name>
  <XternalApps:tooltip>This tool is my tool, it is very useful in a toolset.</XternalApps:tooltip>
  <XternalApps:icon>MyTool.svg</XternalApps:icon>
  <XternalApps:extended-description>
    Lots of text,
    blah blha bhal
  </XternalApps:extended-description>
</XternalApps:tool>