2009/11/2 Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn@xxxxxxxxx> > Off-late, I have seen a lot of message regarding, short term projects. > Here, are a few that I could think of. > > Project 1: > I was recently using my Freebsd OS and found something very > interesting, Adobe doesn't make plugins for BSD license (strange) > machines at all. I am guessing haiku is going to run into the same > problem sooner or later. A workaround to the problem although may be > existent GNASH (GPL) and Swfdec (GPL), both of them don't play movies > that very well (atleast on freebsd with the current latest packages). > These plugins (thanks to the brilliant effort of the authors who > reverse engineer) work decent enough. > > Any plans to port these ? If you want any help I could do it. I just > want some help on how to modify the configure files so that it > compiles for Haiku. (Any docs available on this ?). > Someone already tried porting GNASH but it has a lot of external dependencies. If somebody can point you to the porter you should talk to him and ask what's the current state of the port. > Project 2: > Torrent client for Haiku. Using Librtorrent. (Very Important) > Transmission has a BeOS GUI, someone should: - checkout Transmission trunk - checkout latest Transmission branch with the beos/ folder - port the old GUI to Haiku using layouts and Locale Kit - send a patch to the Transmission team Project 3: > Offloading HaikuSDK + HaikuDesktop to run on other platforms (X > Server, Windows)? This will increase developer base/User base of > Haiku, and hopefully we would increase the amount of user programs. > Apart from gnome and kde, people may actually feel more comfortable > with Haiku appearance and feel. > What are the benefits? > Project 4: > OpenBFS driver for BSD/Linux ? ( Linux already has one, but i wasn't > able to get the haiku partition mounted. It was complaining about the > superblock error). > There is already one with FUSE - I just don't know how to build it. > Project 5: > An updated Music player, with newer playlist management. > Yes, I would love something like iTunes. > Project 6: > VLC porting to Haiku. (I am not sure but, I think there is a Beos > version, so it should b e that big a deal) > VLC porting is not supported. Haiku has a simple media player with a simple user interface just like VLC. The natiuve Haiku MP needs, in my opinion, DVD and streaming features. Well a DVD player would probably be better in a separate and dedicated application. > Project 7: > Porting Wxwidgets to Haiku. > There was a BeOS port, needs to be updated I guess. > Project 8: > Porting X server to Haiku, to run remote unix gui applications. > > There's a port, I've seen some screnshots on Haiku. -- Some companies die Be's beauty lives forever in immortal rhyme