Ros Manager

A gui tool to see and choose ros workspace. Shows in a list the current ros workspaces and gives you buttons to quickly start terminals that is cd'ed, sourced and ready to build and run applications in the workspace.

Ideas:

• Include button for simulation and launching gazebo-ros
• Auto populate workspaces based on top folder. All workspaces are in each of their folders inside the root folder
• Settings to set root-folder
• Include node/package names inside the workspaces in overview
• auto detech ros1 or ros2? (potentially by install folder or if we got another hidden specific file)
• include showing launch files? or maybe choose launch files too?

Build

Assuming you have Rust and cargo installed: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

1. Install dependencies

   sudo apt install libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev
   

2. Build with cargo

   cargo build
   

3. Run the application binary

   cargo run
   

Using the application

First set the workspace root folder with Set WS button on the left hand side.

The application expects a folder structure of:

ros_workspaces
 -> ros1_ws
 -> ros2_ws
 -> ros2_project1_ws
 -> another_ros_ws
   -> src
      -> package1
      -> package2
      ...
 .
 .
 .

So essentially each ros workspace you have, should be inside the same root-folder. So you point the application to the root folder, and it will find all the workspaces and their packages inside each.

Known issues

• Currently crashes if you have an workspace in the path with an empty src/ folder.