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[Milen Dzhumerov <gamehack@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I tried Haiku from the hdd images generated a few days ago and wanted to 
share my opinion on the whole thing. I think the Haiku project is one of 
the best open source projects and I'm really impressed by it. Currently 
I'm busy working on some other stuff but I'm planning to devote a lot 
time after I finish off some necessary and boring projects. So if you 
welcome some more volunteers, I'd be very happy to help. So on the other 
things. Firstly, I think that Haiku has to try to be very fast and 
efficient(I couldn't test that since I tested the images on a virtual 
machine on a laptop with a hyper-slow hdd) in order to preserve the old 
BeOS feeling. Next thing, I noticed that the behaviour of the menus of 
Haiku differ from BeOS (you have to hold the mouse button in order for 
them not to disappear). Is that something which can be changed or what? 
And I really like the boot screen, the haiku logo and the overall 
professional look. Moreover, I think that the haiku leaf on the Deskbar 
is really awesome. One other thing, I couldn't find a guide on how to 
set up a developer environment so I can start experiment and familiarize 
myself with the architecture of Haiku. Is something like this written or 
not? I would also like to thank to everybody who has contributed to the 
project, great work. Sorry, last thing. I was thinking about R2 and the 
posts on the forums about new look etc. and I just wanted to say that if 
would be great if APIs would be made available for theming/extension/etc 
so people can play and customize it. Thanks for reading.

Regards