FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Cosmoe is back

["Niklas Nisbeth" <noisetonepause@xxxxxxxxx>]

How Tux specific is this? Is it something that could be .tgz'd and used on *BSD?

Interesting project over all, I must say... although it will of course
ultimately be useless, once Haiku reaches R1 and Linux dies the
horrible, painful death it deserves :)

On 2/7/07, Bill Hayden <hayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I couldn't stay away.  My lengthy hiatus away from working on
> Cosmoe is now over, and I am back in full force!  For those of you
> not familiar with Cosmoe, it is a BeOS API (or Haiku API, if you
> will) environment running on Linux.
>
> Over the last two months, I have rigorously improved Cosmoe 0.8 and
> also synced it up with the current svn version of Haiku.  The
> result?  Things are looking pretty good.  Mind you, this is still
> (lo, these many years later) much more of a technology demonstration
> than a full-fledged GUI at this point, but I think Cosmoe has come a
> long way.  To be clear, this is not a "fork" of Haiku in any way.  I
> use quite a bit of Haiku code, but I don't intend to take it in new
> directions, only to wrap it for a Linux host.  I hope to work more
> closely with the Haiku folks and foster a symbiotic relation with the
> Haiku project.  Cosmoe uses the same license as Haiku.
>
> Cosmoe currently runs in an SDL window under X until full graphics
> driver support can be achieved.  Here is a current (cropped) screenshot:
>
> http://www.haydentech.com/cosmoe.png
>
> As you may notice by looking at the screenshot, text is not justified
> correctly, i.e., text which should be centered or right-justified is
> always drawn left-justified.  This is one of the last few problems I
> hope to iron out before releasing 0.8.  Oddly, the code for fonts,
> Painter and everything else text-y in between is AFAIK 100% synced
> with Haiku, yet Haiku doesn't appear to have this bug (that I know
> of).  Hopefully some Haiku folks will weigh in on this point.
>
> I hope to put out a source code archive in the next few days once
> it's suitably cleaned up for release.  If you would like to test the
> current release and provide feedback before it goes out to a wider
> audience, please contact me off-list.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Hayden