More applications on Haiku

Interesting, at present I am looking at showimage to add a module that does character recognition. How hard is it to add c/c++ code to comic book reader?

I am waiting for your tutorial.
I have built quiterss myself on Haiku. As soon as I learn how to build a package for Haiku, I will submit it to you.

Excellent, thank you Giova84! More apps are always welcome ^^

I would like to see the following classes of apps:

1. Audio- and music-related applications. Are there any simple, but stable QT wave editors which are portable? BeAE just has too many little glitches, it drives me mad. I don't expect a full DAW (door? d'awww? goddamn things...) but rather something simple and to-the-point.
More generally, also multimedia applications. Simple video editors? Even simple audio players, something like Soundplay?

2. Applications that make up for the Web browser problem. I'm not sure how difficult it is to port QT-based browsers (or even how many such browsers there are.) Instead I suggest porting applications that work around browser shortcomings, like some kind of Youtube application (not thinking about UberTuber etc., something more like the old iPad Youtube application which literally replaces the whole Youtube site and has an integraed video player)
Also other things which are inaccessible on Haiku: Google Streetview, RTP-based video streams (rtsp://) which modern VLC can do but not the old BeOS version, and Ustream/Justin.tv/Livestream viewer applications (if any exist)

3. Bitcoin client, I think it is written in QT. There are web services which will do this in Haiku, but clearly it would be far more secure to have a native application, where the private keys are stored on your PC and nowhere else. I'm not sure how secure Haiku's random number generator is, it may be a factor to consider before porting (unless the client has its own PRNG built-in)
Also porting this as a native application might assist with starting an ecosystem on Haiku where app developers can easily accept donations or payments in bitcoin. Far better than PayPal with its ridiculous account freezing and steep fees.

4. Above all-else, applications that people actually want, which aren't adequately-provided with native BeOS/Haiku apps or Java apps. No point porting 10 text editors and 5 image viewers, but just one application that addresses a real sore spot can make a huge difference.

I remember years back there used to be "GoCR" translator on BeOS R5. It installed as a translator, so you could just select a rectangle in ShowImage and drag it out somewhere and select "text clipping" from the popup menu, and it would be dragged out as text (via the OCR translator) rather than bitmap data. It also worked via save-as in any BeOS application of course.

This seems to be the right way to do OCR in Haiku, it may need better integration with ShowImage to be able to see and search that text without having to make a clipping on your desktop or whatever. Likewise the same translator could be pulled into BePDF and used to assist with searching PDFs which have scanned pages.

I think something like this would be far preferable to just bunging a library on the sysetm and having apps load it. That stinks of Linux! The DataTranslations system seems like a bit of an untapped powerhouse, maybe the API can be augmented a bit and it could solve a lot of problems like this.

Very good initiative! I'm really interested in port Qt apps to Haiku too, but I never found a tutorial to start.

Thank you!!!

Well, I want to be doing Japanese translation at the same time. The module I am thinking of will add additional windows/interfaces to showimage to handle training of the translator and processing out the background. Of-course if properly to trained to handle English text (a lot easier task than Japanese) it should be possible to add a Haiku Data Translator to the same engine to operate the way you suggested. I will try and remember this idea as a future expansion.

please!!! try to compile and public this : its PCMANFM from LXDE project ported to QT4 libbrary

sources are on Git

http://blog.lxde.org/?p=966

CoolReader3 & Qt4.8.5 bug

http://s001.radikal.ru/i194/1302/de/a1775b5ddf96.png

Qtads please. The version posted on poormanscoding doesn't work on R1A4.1. Also check out eComStation's list of ported apps at http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps.

Outstanding, Giova84! So many people keep asking for word processors to be ported, this seems like it will do a lot more than simple word processing ^^

Does this work on an alpha 4.1 system, or does it need to be a particular hybrid nightly? I get so confused with all these hybrids and different versions, I hope it all clears up by the time Haiku reaches beta.

Regarding the printing support, have you looked at the code at all to see what function is being called when you do file->print? I'm wondering how easy it would be to add some code in there that makes Scribus export a PDF file into /var/tmp/. Then modify BePDF to make a simple standalone PDF printing app with no GUI (apart from printer setup) that's called from within Scribus using system().

It's a bit of a bodge, but it might be a lot easier than porting CUPS. What matters is the user's experience, and as far as they're concerned it would work just like a normal print feature.