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reading epub in haiku

Forum thread started by farvardin on Fri, 2011-03-18 21:57

Hello,

I think it would be cool to be able to natively read in Haiku ebooks in the epub format (I don't talk about drm here).
There are a couple firefox extensions for doing this, but one is not compatible with firefox 2 and the other one is quite outdated and doesn't seem to correctly display epub using utf8 characters.

Porting calibre could be a solution (there is a good ebook reader with it), as it's using Qt.

Success using another way

Forum thread started by DasJott on Sat, 2011-01-29 12:03

As I recently looked through the BeBook, I noticed again how easy and yes, simply pretty cool the BeOS-API is. That lead me to the following idea:
One should have started to port the BeAPI to other OSes, making it some kind of Framework. Because the API is so easy, cool and great, people could have decided to use the BeAPI-Framework to code their apps for Linux or even Win. A neat side effect would have been, that those apps would have been easily portable to BeOS/Haiku. So you could have answered the question "Is XY also available on HAIKU" easily with "Yes, of course".

Just a thought...

What do you think?

Haiku NATIVITY

Forum thread started by zblace on Wed, 2011-01-05 16:34

No it is not post about xmass spirit,
but rather on considering Haiku code useful
for more scenarios then just what traditional OS is.

Thinking along the line of the old post
http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/posix_port
it would be great if Haiku could run natively
under Windows 2000/XP as Collaborative LINUX can http://www.colinux.org/
under MacOS 9/x or closed source defunct operating systems...

Possible advantages:
#1 breaking out of a single niche of obscure desktop Operating Systems that are only in theory concurrent to Win/Lin/Mac OS trinity - in order to be considered interesting to people who are into virtualizations and specific tasks that desktop OSes can not manage as well as Haiku.
This could bring more hackers and enthusiasts to the Haiku core development as well as open doors to new uses of Haiku in fields like education (where it's simplicity could be used for pedagogical purposes) or scientific (where writing custom/niche software could be done quick).

#2 providing good performance for old hardware that is no longer supported by Microsoft/Apple/(Other closed source OS vendor) through last supported OS setup. Owners of less popular/mainstream hardware that relays on specific drivers of deprecated OS would love that.
As the owner of SGI 320 with win2k http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation I can not think of slicker looking OS then Haiku to drive this old hardware :)

Haiku mobile version

Forum thread started by vootele on Fri, 2010-12-31 14:49

* Something similar to Android, only 100% faster.
* Live queries used of various tasks.
* lightweight without missing features.
* Short boot/shutdown time.

Wouldn't it be cool? :D

Scripted Themes

Forum thread started by Luiji on Mon, 2010-12-27 21:48

I was thinking that it would be cool to program themes using Lua or something. For example, a simple theme might look like:

function initWindow()
  -- This is so that you can store state information for animations and stuff for fancier themes.
  -- If this is not specified, it will just create an empty table, so this function is not needed.
  -- NOTE: This data does not contain the window title, width, height, etc.
  return {}
end
 
function update(window, dt)
  -- More animation support for fancy themes. The dt parameter contains how much time passed since the
  -- last update. Again, this function is not required. Window is a table with the window information,
  -- which was initialized with initWindow.
end
 
function render(window, width, height, title)
  -- Draw the window.
  draw.rectangle(0, 0, 10, width) -- Caption Bar
  -- ...
end
 
function button(x, y, width, height, text)
  -- draw a be button
end
 
function label(x, y, text)
  -- draw a be label
end

I hope that is a good enough explanation. If I need to be more detailed, just give me the say so!

P.S. Anybody know if there is a way to get e-mail notifications so I do not have to check back daily?

Some suggestions

Forum thread started by xtega on Sat, 2010-11-13 15:38

I'd like to suggest some features that I'd like in Haiku, maybe them are silly or stupid...

- In tracker preferences "Auto resize to fit" would be a great option that will increase folder navigation experience.

- Rename files whith large name it's a little tedious and sometimes frustrating. Could it be multiline?

- I didn't find a "Task manager" or a Crontab like file, how could I submit a job every night (for example) is there anyway to do it?

Thanks

Contemporary Tabs

Forum thread started by IAC on Sat, 2010-11-06 08:15

I recently checked out the most recent alpha of Haiku and it was great. Very fast and full of potential however I couldn't help but notice that it looks precisely the same as the old BeOS and while this isn't a bad thing I'd hoped for more small details and improvements (many of which I am sure will come on their own). In the interest however of contributing what I have I did a mock-up of some minor improvements to the basic tab shape, which I feel bring the classic BeOS tabbed look into the present.
the mock-up is here: http://img688.imageshack.us/i/haikuos.png/

as you can see the upper left hand corner is rounded resulting in a friendlier feel, while the right side of the tab has been made diagonal for a sense of motion.

I hope you like it. :)

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