My wish list
Hi all,
I'm new to this forum (and new to BeOS), and that's my wish list for Haiku:
- Video-Chat like Apple's iChat, compatible to iChat and AIM, later support for H.264
- a good adress book and calendar app/PIM
- support for Bluetooth
- ability to sync cell phone and PIM
- OpenOffice
- Java SDK
- support for notebooks (power management, processor throttling, suspend, battery fuel status, ...)
- something like Apple's Exposé
- something like Apple's iTunes
- a tool for managing Apple's iPod
Thomas
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Re: My wish list
Hey.., HAIKU is not a new version of MacOS. :wink:
this is BeOS, it has its own style of doing and presenting things.. watch for the best..
Your wish list seems to be very challenging for the time being.
:arrow: But i strongly support the support for Blutooth and the ability to sync cell phones and PIM with BeOS. This is to be considered seriously since more and more people are now using their cellphone PIM to Sync with their PC.
but..
but..
the main problem here is..
to sync your cell phones or PIMs with BeOS the driver software must be provided by the manufacturer of that product.
This is a big problem since currently there are no such manufacturers who develop driver softwares for BeOS.
I think for this, we may have to wait for a really long time..
My wish list
ashkarkm wrote:
Yes, I like using Mac OS X :wink: What I like on Exposé is to get a quick overview on each open window. I don't want to make Haiku to a new version of MacOS :wink: May be this feature could be implemented in the BeOS way.
There's an open source app that enables the Outlook-clone Evolution to sync with some cell phones: http://multisync.sourceforge.net/ . It should be possible to use this code to make a sync app for Haiku, I think.
Thomas
My wish list
Yes, it seems interesting, lets hope that someone would come up and port it.. It would be really exciting if an option to sync with these cellphones are integrated to HAIKU..
Is anyone out there?
exposè is cool, but...
Hi guys,
sorry for the following bad english.
Exposè is really cool, it gives an interesting visual feedback to the user, but the deskbar+workspaces ( the app, not the feature) is much better.
However I want to share an idea I had some days ago about the <a href="http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/bedocs/documentation/User's%20Guide/02_advanced/Advanced03_Twitcher.html">twitcher</a>.
I think that the whole beos community knows this feature, you can switch between running apps by pressing CTRL+TAB , or holding that keybindings will appear a window where you can select your task using arrow keys or your mouse.
It would be great if the twitcher ver 2.0 could have a smarter behavior, like to switch between only the active windows; with active windows I mean those where the user is working, like writing some text, pressing some widgets ,moving/resizing the window itself,etc.
An example: I have 10 apps running for a total of 15 windows opened in different workspaces, but some of those are visible and unused, like boneyard preflet, the trash folder, a readme file opened with StyledEdit, while I'm using some windows like another StyledEdit window where I'm composing a new file , BeIDE to editing a .cpp file , im_client to chat with a contact and Firefox to post in this forum.
If there are 10 apps opened I have to press CTRL+TAB several times to reach the wanted window with the normal twitcher, while having a smarter version I can press only (in example) [F9] to switch between recently used windows, so, if I'm in StyledEdit and I press once F9 then it'll switch to BeIDE, another press to go to im_client, another one and I'll be able to leave my comments with FireFox.
The "mutant" twitcher should filter the app_server in input to match which windows are currently used ( in example if there are some apps that are sucking CPU cycles like Helios during burning or HandBrake during ripping/encoding they should be ignored because there isn't no human interaction with those windows), then it with an appropriate input-server filter you can switch to the most recently used windows( in the latest x minutes ), the most active ( total time of utilization) or the most switched ones( absolute times), with different keystrokes (F9/F10/F11).
That's all folks,
zuMi