[openbeos] darksite :)

Hi Gregor!

So you still plan an update for Darksite? I'm still using that old 
one.. ;-)

Rudolf.


> [addons]
> I think the key-issue here is how it is done, as Axel implied.
> Add-ons per se are a great thing IMO but if they *all* get loaded,
> initialized etc. on startup, they are a bad solution and just there 
> to
> impress people (think Photoshop etc.), along with a "nice"
> splash-screen that underlines how professional the software is 
> because
> it loads up so many wonderful things...
> 
> However a simple solution that just talks to separate
> mini-applications that are just loaded *on-demand*, probably using
> BMessages, should be fine. I won't go into details here regarding how
> I planned this approach for my editor-project DarkSite now...:->
> 
> [general]
> Anyway I need a proper DriveSetup-replacement much more than an
> ShowImage, so let's not hold up the working devs with details;-)
> 
> Great work btw, just recently had a chance to *finally* boot into
> haiku, albeit using Q(EMU) on MacOS X, and ran successfully for 20
> minutes (could be that the emulation hung then, not haiku itself).
> Simply impressive (with an emphasis on both "simple" as a good thing
> and "impressive":).
> 
> Gregor
> --
> http://grexbox.ath.cx/
> 
>

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