mmu_man's blog
The return of the son of the demo CD
As everyone knows (or should), every BeOS install CD was actually a live CD (way before Linux "invented" it...). And of course so would be for Haiku.
While it used to work long ago, nobody actually tried to make one for some time, and some fixes were required to make it happen again.
Making an usable CD still requires some work (Bootscript.cd, ramdisk for settings maybe...), but it finally boots again.
Update on work done at FOSDEM: USB webcam & IM Kit
Here are some screenshots of what I fixed at FOSDEM...
Hello from FOSDEM
Hi there from our FOSDEM booth in the corridor!
Even more themes
Fri, 2008-02-01 15:21 Tags: 3rdparty :: gui themes :: theme manager
What to do when you are bored at 1 am, and you see noone sending in new themes ? Make sure you can use more of the existing ones :)
I've never used BeTheme myself, but it seemed to have gained some fans. So hoping it would bring newer ideas I added some code to the Theme manager to import those themes. It currently supports background pictures, deskbar position and R5 decor. Icons aren't handled yet, but that will have to be done someday.
The bowels of the Theme Manager, or How to make Haiku as ugly as Zeta
Sat, 2008-01-26 00:24 Tags: 3rdparty :: BMessage :: gui themes :: plain text :: theme manager
Some people might wonder what exactly this "themes" stuff in the commits is all about. So let's see how it all started, where we are and what's left to do.
Features
The Theme Manager is an addon-based desktop theme selector. It can selectively apply parts of a theme, create a new one based on the current configuration, add a screenshot to it.
Currently, themes contain settings for ui colors, system fonts, background pictures, window decorator, deskbar position, screensaver, Terminal colors, font and size, sounds, and even the selected winamp skin from CL-Amp and SoundPlay through a specific plugin.
