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[Jimmy Shaka <the.sciaccas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is the Haiku dir on berlios full again? The last few entries have 0 k  
size.

PS:
I just want to say I'm so very proud of all the developers for making  
Haiku-Tracker/Deskbar possible. The news is worth plenty of  
celebration- (even without functionality and polish.)
Much love and thanks to you all!!
 Shaka

On Jul 9, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Stephan Aßmus wrote:

> Hi Zenja,
>
> > I've posted some screenshots of Haiku AppServer running OpenTracker on
> > a thread on ArsTechnica battlefront
> > (http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums? 
> > a=tpc&s=50009562&f=48409524&
> > m=635003524731&r=596004524731#596004524731),
> > and the overall impression is that font clipping seems unprofessional.
>
> And that's why there are no official screenshots on our site just yet.  
> This
> is exactly the reason why I feel posting all this news is premature.  
> There
> are pretty high hopes and expectations on the Haiku project, and  
> everyone
> will look really close. Haiku does not stand a closer look yet by any  
> means.
>
> What really puzzles me... you must have had Haiku actually running to  
> make
> those screenshots. So *you* should know that there are much more  
> pressing
> issues than fixing up those *apps* to have a more dynamic layout. I  
> don't
> blame those people just looking at the screenshots to notice something  
> like
> text clipping. But I do wonder about you, who have run Haiku, that you  
> think
> it is time to think about text clipping.
>
> > It's easy to fix this issue
>
> No, it is not so easy to fix this issue on a larger scale. The real  
> fix is a
> layout management that goes past the B_FOLLOW_LEFT_TOP stuff.  
> Something in
> the direction of liblayout. If you ever used one of my apps, then you  
> would
> know I do care about text clipping and generally about giving an  
> impression
> of a polished app. In fact, I care alot about that. But right now...  
> no way.
> We really have much bigger problems to focus on.
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan