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Could we get an rss for the forums? It would make so people don't have to check the website or auto-subscribe.

i want to speak up shortly haiku needs a good office application like "ms office " i don't want to ask you to imitate microsoft but to make a better office application with graet performance and flexibilty and features.i think open office , libre office or kingsoft won't work. they can be used as base but haiku really need a fine application for office.and make booting time more short .and i am expecting new website look in the beginning of year 2013 and please remove that ugly piggy bank and put something else some type of more appealing and attractive.

I've been wanting to give Haiku a bit more serious of a try for a while now, but I wasn't really able to because my daily-driver laptop is a Core 2 Duo machine, and the lack of power-management support meant that if I left it on for any length of time, it would get egg-frying hot and start the fan going full-blast. That's one thing on a desktop, but for a laptop it makes it pretty much unusable :/

Luckily, I just nabbed a laptop on the cheap that should be perfect for the purpose. If anyone wants to dig it up themselves, it's the HP NC6000; it's a Pentium M, so it's not exactly world-ending mighty, but it's plenty zippy for a lightweight little OS like Haiku and can take up to 2GB of RAM (PC2700,) and SpeedStep works perfectly, so it doesn't constantly run hot (does get a bit toasty at times, but nothing unmanageable; I'm going to redo the thermal paste and see if it improves any further.) The optional-but-common built-in wifi is, as far as I can tell from the documentation, one of Intel's various models (supported,) or the Atheros chipset mine has (also supported,) and the audio is standard AC'97 (seems to work fine.) Video's a Radeon Mobility 9600 with either 32MB or 64MB, so it should be in an ideal position once 3D drivers start getting written/ported. The only downside thus far is some major drift on the touchpad when I leave my finger sitting in place; I've got a replacement on the way, so we'll see if that resolves it. Alpha 3 installed without issue; I'm going to put the latest nightly on it when I get a chance.

So anyway, I should now be able to do a bit more acclimating to Haiku. This thread is where I'll post my observations and suggestions.

To start:

* It would be really nice to have a way to block windows from overlapping the Deskbar, at least when it's in Windows taskbar mode. "Always on top" helps, but it's still annoying because maximized windows wind up behind it. It basically defeats the purpose of having that mode.

* It would be nice to have a snap feature for resize on the lower-right corner of the screen like there is for relocate on the upper-left; I suppose it's possible that I might want to resize a window past the borders of the screen, but it's not nearly as likely as my wanting to resize it to the border (especially since auto-maximizing causes that Deskbar overlap issue.)

* Does Haiku support standby mode? It doesn't standby when I shut the lid, or when I click the power button. This is a pretty crucial feature for laptops...