General Haiku Discussion

Here you can talk about anything relating to Haiku.

Controls/widgets

Forum thread started by DFergATL on Wed, 2013-10-23 02:43

Why do some of the widgets (Web Positve, Media Player" seem to have an updated look/feel to the controls but others seem to still have the old 90's style?

Webpositive and Alpha R5?

Forum thread started by Linuxgamer94 on Wed, 2013-10-16 18:43

So I heard that the Haiku team contracted a guy to use the updated Webkit to make a version of Webpositive that would be HTML5 compatable. Now I was just woundering if Haiku Alpha 5 will come with this version and if you can use it on Alpha 4 witch is the release I am running.

Online storage for HAIKU?

Forum thread started by Linuxgamer94 on Wed, 2013-10-16 18:38

Ok so we all know that Haiku's main web browser Webpositive does not suport HTML5, youtube, or Google Drive.

Haiku spy

Forum thread started by cipri on Wed, 2013-10-16 12:14

I would like to have your opinions to one idea.

What do you think about a "haiku spy" , that means daemon / application , installed in the haiku system by default (and users can deactivate it, if needed) , that is collecting information and sending it back to haiku.

The functionality would be described in a manual, so that the users know everything the computer is doing.

But the idea is, that user-information, could help haiku to develop better.
For example this "spy" would collect informaton like:
* what haiku version is the user runnnig (what nightly build)
* how often is haiku turned on and off
* how many hours a month it is turned on
* how often are used certain applications
* what cpu is your computer (and other hardware information)
* etc...

This would be a big help, to collect all this data, and to make a online available statistics. So everyone has one idea how haiku is developing. How many active users does it have? Are these users using older or newer hardware (show the distribution/chart). How many are using official release, and more many the nightly builds, etc...

What do you think, would you accept such a "spy" on your haiku, or would you deactivate it?

How to install Virtualbox in Haiku?

Forum thread started by Linuxgamer94 on Mon, 2013-10-14 04:40

So I want to know if you can install Virtualbox on Haiku yet? I want to run some other OS's and keep my Haiku install.

How to install Virtualbox in Haiku?

Forum thread started by Linuxgamer94 on Mon, 2013-10-14 04:40

So I want to know if you can install Virtualbox on Haiku yet? I want to run some other OS's and keep my Haiku install.

creative coding libraries & support

Forum thread started by spinach on Sun, 2013-10-13 06:19

i'm curious about libraries and languages being supported in haiku like openframeworks, cinder or nodebox? it'd be pretty cool to ease the process of creating media nodes (especially filters) and promote creative coding in haiku, especially leveraging cortex (how is development on cortex?), and it'd be much easier to not completely murder a system with such memory intensive tasks as streaming media between applications than using standard c/c++.

i'm assuming processing would work just fine, being java-based, but what of others?

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