General Haiku Discussion

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Pongeroids, SimpleSearch source??

Forum thread started by Ansible on Wed, 2011-09-14 23:12

Back in the day I wrote a couple of programs for BeOS - Pongeroids and SimpleSearch. I still have the source someplace.

Is this something that people would want? If it would be helpful I'd like to just post the source someplace and if anyone cares enough they could get it going on haiku. Is there a repository for old BeOS code like this?

Colour Management

Forum thread started by stellarpower on Mon, 2011-09-05 11:59

Please can anyone give some information on whether colour management is implemented in Haiku?
I'd like to know, for example, if and how monitor or device profiles are used in the OS, and whether applications like showimage use colour profiles embedded in image files.

Thank you.

building icons in qt apps help?

Forum thread started by khallebal on Thu, 2011-09-01 22:48

hi
when compiling a qt app you don't get the original icon built with it instead you get the default beos/haiku apps icon,so there are different ways for different OSs for building the icon,i just can't find any doc about this topic for haiku.
as an example for macosx,you convert the original icon to .icns format like this eg: myapp.icns,then you create a text file with this line ( MACOXICON = mayapp.icns)then save the file as you wish ,once this is done you will add this line in your .pro file wich is the the project file of your app.

macosx{
ICON_FILE += yournewlysavedfilename

}
so my question is ,how would it be for haiku?
what file do i have to create?
what line do i have to add to the .pro file?
thanks

who makes/provieds device drivers for Haiku..?

Forum thread started by asifnaz on Thu, 2011-09-01 19:04

when I installed windows on my PC I had to install 3 drivers manually sound card , Ethernet and VGA card .

but when I installed Haiku(even at alpha stage) on same PC it had all three in it .

Since it does not use Linux kernel , I am very curious to know who makes/provides these drivers..?

The hardware manufacturer ?
Haiku developers (if yes how ..?)
or
It uses 1 fits all(generic ) drivers?

Thank you

Haiku Forced

Forum thread started by maxim on Thu, 2011-09-01 12:34

Russian release-maker known as kim1963 has prepared a nice Haiku version that contains a lot stuff including several non-standard media-servers, latest Qt software, six web browsers and a lot of software including ftp, xmpp, torrent and other clients. All software is free and said to be tested. Torrent release is based upon Haiku 41539 build and presented in USB 4G image.

http://www.nnm-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=381828

Have fun.

Newb questions.

Forum thread started by MGandTL on Thu, 2011-09-01 09:47

I'm coming from Ubuntu/Debian/MSDOS/Fedora (but mainly Ubuntu) , I saw Haiku featured in LinuxFormat magazine, and was intrigued. I wasn't around to see BeOS, but from what the article said, and what I see in your slideshow, I like the idea and the 'look'. Questions, though:

1) What command-line does it use, and where do I learn about it?

2) Which bootloader does it use, or does it use its own?

3) I have been developing packages for Ubuntu for a while (with mixed success), but I understand Haiku has a different approach. Where can I find a brief explanation of how Haiku manages packages/updates, and how to become a Haiku developer?

4) Does it even have a package manager?

In case you hadn't guessed, I haven't booted Haiku yet (slow Internet). Sorry for newbiness, I genuinely haven't touched anything that's not Linux/Microsoft based.

BeOs Support is Mesa has been killed

Forum thread started by lxstoian on Sat, 2011-08-27 15:54

Well as the title says since last night BeOS and basically all old code has been dropped from the Mesa tree. This is creating problems for BSD derivates and Solaris ones already. Will this be affecting HAIKU?

More info here : http://osshed.blogspot.com/2011/08/mesa-kills-of-old-code.html

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