[haiku-development] Re: Two successful final year projects

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:36 PM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Christof,
> Cool projects your students worked on.  Hopefully this will be an
> annual event there?  Haiku seems to be well suited for this type of
> University level project.

I think it is important to get a lot a lot of contributions from the
academic world. Once Haiku is officially alpha, I will do my best to
introduce it to computer science depts in the universities in my
area...hopefully others will 'evangelize' too. :)

A good UI should solve problems and not just 'show off' (i.e
marketing). IIRC there used to be an introduction on the website that
listed at least 3 that Haiku wanted to solve: most people have
problems with 1) too many cluttered icons on their desktop, 2)
installation of apps is more complicated that it should be
(http://www.haiku-os.org/glass_elevator/rfc/installer) and 3) window
management.

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