> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:03:23 +0530 > Subject: [haiku-development] Some useful haiku projects > From: anoop.kn@xxxxxxxxx > To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi. Most of these projects were already finished. > 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. There are efforts to port GNASH to Haiku. This is "work in progress". Besides, non-interactive Flash movies can be played with VLC, which can be plugged into BeZilla. It works good for YouTube videos. > Project 2: > Torrent client for Haiku. Using Librtorrent. (Very Important) Well, I personally strongly against any P2P software. But we have BeShare, and there are DC++ clients written on Perl that will work under Haiku, not to mention a native DC++ client currently in development. Besides, AFAIK the Mozilla suite (BeZilla) also offers support for torrents. And there is BitTorrent application on BeBits for 6 years. > 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. I doubt it will benefit Haiku. Anyway, this is already created partially. There is a way to compile a BeOS application on Windows, especially if it doesn't use BeOS libraries. There is also a way to create Visual Studio 6 resource files from BeOS projects. BTW, some BeOS libraries were ported to Windows too; see, for example, the GoBe Productive 3 files - some of the libraries there have very interesting names... > Project 5: > An updated Music player, with newer playlist management.> 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) There is a VLC port to Haiku. It also supports playlists. Besides, there're CL-Amp and SoundPlay, both are excellent players. > Project 8: > Porting X server to Haiku, to run remote unix gui applications. There is one already. There is even rootless implementation, when a native X application runs in a Haiku window, without need to create a separate window for the X Server itself and run only inside of it.Thanks,Alexey.