General Haiku Discussion

Hi

Does the recently introduced Haiku Package Manager support modular, self-contained applications? By this I mean applications whose files are ALL hosted within their own directory (instead of being scattered all over the filesystem, as is the norm in the *nix world). As a parallel case to this I have in mind Windows' portable applications (although these are usually not tracked or managed by any package manager) or TinyCore Linux's self-contained extensions.

I vaguely remember reading that Haiku does support this feature, or that it was planned.

I would be thankful if you could tell me whether this feature has already been implemented, and how it works.
Thanks in advance to all of you, and kudos to the developers.

HaikuForever

From the OSnews website: The State of Applications On Haiku

AndrewZ said:

"GOBEProductive - Do I have a quote? No. Have I spoken with GOBE Software and a Sr. Haiku developer? Yes. GP is not open sourced but there is a possibility of a Haiku port. I'm hoping this will inspire some positive discussion and a new efforts here."

koki said:

"In May 2008, when I was still heavily involved with the Haiku project, I had discussions with Bruce Hammond of Gobe Software that lead to a concrete offer from him to give Haiku developers the opportunity to work on a Haiku port of Gobe Productive 3; in exchange for the development work, Bruce committed to make the resulting Haiku binaries available for free.

In response to Bruce's generous offer, several Haiku developers of stature volunteered to work on the port, and they were given access to the code, but for some reason the project never went anywhere. It is kind of disappointing that nothing has materialized after more than two years, but maybe there is still hope.

Yes, I know who the developers were (four, if my memory does not fail), but it's up to them whether they want to come forward or not. You could always ask on one of the Haiku mailing lists.

BTW, there was no money involved whatsoever; the agreement was that the devs would do the work for free and Gobe would release the GP3 binary for Haiku gratis.

I have no idea on the state of the code; that would be another question for the devs, which they may not be able to answer as they were unders NDAs."

What ever became of these discussions?

Hiya

I would like to expose You an app that i was working since some time. uPIM, which is a Personal Information Manager. It's written from ground-up without any GPL/FOSS code in it. I would like to know if there will be interests in this kind of software on Haiku. Its not free software, but donationware, which means if You want to get full version with all feats enabled you'll need to donate to my paypal account.
Thanks to this kind of license [DonationWare] You're supporting me, and I supporting You.

What's PIM:
A personal information manager (often referred to as a PIM tool or, more simply, a PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. The acronym PIM is now, more commonly, used in reference to personal information management as a field of study.[1] As an information management tool, a PIM tool's purpose is to facilitate the recording, tracking, and management of certain types of "personal information".

Video: https://vimeo.com/86176776

Highlights of Ultimate PIM

[*] Calendar Agenda:
- To-Do lists for every day in calendar
- Notes for every day in calendar
- Saving+Copy+Cut+Paste functions in notes [only donators edition]
- Easy adjusting view
- Adding todos
- Deleting todos

[*] Syncing
- Syncing [Simple and Advanced] [only donators edition]
- Backing up your notes/todo's in ZIP file [only donators edition]

[*] Default Notepad
- Saving [only donators edition]
- Copy+Cut+Paste functions
- Additional options [only donators edition]
- Clipboard Monitor [only donators edition]
- Unlimited Different Note's

[*] Default To-Do
- Saving
- Adding todos
- Deleting todos
- Unlimited Different To Do's
-

[*] Contacts/emails
- Adding + Deleting contacts
- Saving Contacts [only donators edition]
- Run email client [only donators edition]
- Viewing Contact Summary

[*] Calculator [Work in progress] [only donators edition]

[*] Alarm(s) - Sound and PopUp Info [only donators edition]

[*] FileSearcher/FileManager
- Indexing all files on both SD cards
- Viewing files via fileseracher/filemanager
+ pdfs
+ videos [avi, rmvb, mkv, ogm, mp4, mpg]
+ txt
+ pictures [png, gif, jpg]
+ documents [doc, docx, rtf, abw]
+ music [mp3]

[*] WebLinks/Bookmarks
- Adding + Deleting bookmarks
- Saving bookmarks [only donators edition]
- Starting Bookmarks in WebBrowser

And many more:
- Integration with other programs [and plugins] [email clients + pdf readers]
- F1-F10 keys used to easy navigate
- Clean and clever design

License:
uPIM is DonationWare software.

Additional info:
uPIM is author's [StreaK's] software, no single piece of GPL code was used in making this Ultimate PIM app.

http://repo.openpandora.org/files/pnd/ultimate-pim-app//pics/01.png

http://repo.openpandora.org/files/pnd/ultimate-pim-app//pics/02.png

http://repo.openpandora.org/files/pnd/ultimate-pim-app//pics/04.png

http://repo.openpandora.org/files/pnd/ultimate-pim-app//pics/05.png

http://repo.openpandora.org/files/pnd/ultimate-pim-app//pics/06.png

BTW. uPIM has been released already for OpenPandora, Linux [not released to public, yet] and soon should be released to Raspberry Pi [RaspBian]

I believe haiku is obviously on crisis and we can help it to get out of there, but we should speak about it, i believe between many things a list

one can be use bitcoins to receive donations for contracts how an alternative way,

other opinion is think in the new computers and rethink the interfaces dont look so anachronistic i love many things of this interface but i really know it lack other things,

we need more programers, more programers and pay more attention on social networks, really this Os can be a real alternative for linux windows or mac but need some help really.

Html5 and flash plugin (gnash)

dont be close we need more help.

I follow this project from 2008 and have hope on it, but day by day i look how my blog for haiku are with less readers and how the news on my feedly from haiku blogs are less and less, what are the real problem, you can note it? what can we do? what can i do?.