[haiku] Re: GSoC: Writing native interfaces for ported applications
- From: hudsonco1@xxxxxxx
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:26:13 -0400
In January Mizsei Zoltán released an Alpha version of VLC 1.0.4. I was doing
some testing with him until he dropped off. He claimed that VLC 1.0.4 was
running on his PC but he couldn't take the time to build an installer with only
necessary libraries. So if you install all possible libraries, it might work. I
was able to get the interface up, but could not play anything.
I'm not sure if he had a work-around for bug #4029.
My personal thoughts on applications is that it is REALLY good to have "brand
name" applications like VLC, Firefox, Qt, etc ported to Haiku. The reason is
that it gives outsiders a good feeling or trust in Haiku and also gives them
training wheels for their first experience running Haiku. This is very
important if we want to grow the user base of Haiku. We do agree that more
users for Haiku is a good thing, right? And choice is good, right?
Let me be very clear, native applications for Haiku are EVEN BETTER. I really
think it is OK to have brand name applications and native applications living
side by side. Often it does not take extra developer resources to port the
brand name applications because the developers come from outside Haiku. This is
not a bad thing, in fact it's pretty cool.
I would like to have some discussions on applications in the near future. It
will be interesting.
Regards,
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 7:08 pm
Subject: [haiku] Re: GSoC: Writing native interfaces for ported applications
On 23 March 2010 08:54, PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> all the settings dialogs (but there may be less settings on Haiku). A proper
> port of VLC including binding to our Media kit, could make a full project,
> but you may want to check if the code from vlc0.8 days is still useable or
> not.
VLC is designed to be standalone, it does not use any bindings to the Media Kit.
Which is why I encourage everyone to use MediaPlayer that does use the Media Kit
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Cheers
David
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