[interfacekit] Registrar: Milestone 3 reached

Hi,

this could have been said a week or so ago, but wasn't due to 
communication flow problems. Anyway...

The fearless Storage Kit team, this time supported by Gabe Yoder, 
strikes again. Milestone 3 of our four-phased registrar development 
schedule has been reached.

Newly implemented are the application roster features application 
launching and watching, recent application/document support and message 
broadcasting, and the BMessageRunner and BClipboard classes.

Let alone one method, BRoster::ActiveApp(), which requires our own 
working app server, the entire part of the BeOS API that depends on 
interactions with the registrar is completely implemented. For the next 
and last milestone the two missing registrar services, the automatic 
background updating of the MIME database and the system shutdown, need 
to be added. For the time being they are not crucial, and it does make 
more sense to tackle them, when we can run applications under our 
operating system, so we postpone the remaining tasks and, in the 
meantime, get some other work done.

CU, Ingo

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