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I'm trying to write a simple news feed reader in python.
I implemented a listview for the newspapers and a listview for the news of the selected newspaper
Now i'm trying to make the news listview colored but i'm find hard to do it.
I found some sample code that maybe can help here:

http://haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/BListItem_Overview.html

but it's in C++
and i'm not sure how to implement it in python

is there some easy way to make a BStringItem colored? or can someone help me translate that class to python?

Hey, I'm try to create a Haiku image, compiled from source that is without the various non essential applications, documentation and demo packages. Is there a Jam flag or a buildconfig option that might allow me to do this? Also, i highly doubt there is at this stage, but is there a way to compile it without the debug symbols.

The current image size is around 180mb i wouldn't mind getting that down to 100/120 or less if i can. My haiku kiosk image is going to be stored on an network attached storage so i am trying to strip down the image to the bare bones to move it around more quickly and assume the least possible amount of space.

There's a bug in the git package obtained via installoptionalpackage, but I don't know how to contact the author. It's not the same author as http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/development/miscellaneous/git, or he would have updated version info (v1.5 binaries vs v1.7 from installoptionalpackage).

Is there a Haiku equivalent to Ubuntu Package Search (http://packages.ubuntu.com/)?

This kind of website helps us figure out dependency issues and contact information for developers, among other things.

I'd appreciate it if someone could help me get in contact with the Haiku Git maintainer so that he can be informed of a missing dependency:

Without curl, Haiku's git has trouble cloning repositories:

~> installoptionalpackage git
~> git --version
git version 1.7.0.5
~> git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /boot/home/Downloads/node/.git/
fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'
~> git clone http://github.com/joyent/node.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /boot/home/Downloads/node/.git/
fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'http'

I found out about haiku when i was looking for a python gui toolkit then i saw bethon target BeOS looked it up and found haiku so i burned the iso and tried it and i though it was really nice. I'm french but can speak english very well besides have typos every now and then.

I'm kind a python beginner and interested in learning more right now i got no work and nothing much to do all day then learn python etc. This is going to be like that for the next 6 months. So i was wondering if there was anything i could do to help out. Just tell me and ill get on it. I'm learning python as i said and will start learning Bethon shortly. So if you need testing or anything just ask me and ill be happy to help. I also have a good knowledge in apache mysql mybb and some html.