[interfacekit] berlin - possible ui for openbeos

Here is a message I recieved about using berlin as a ui for Open-BeOS.  I kind 
of think we should write our own but I still wanted you guys to see this.

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Hello,
I've noticed you're alive, 
and working on the interface of openbeos
to me it's a new project which i haven't looked into yet. (is there 
available code already?)

based on newos as a kernel yes?

anyway, if you're still on the design stage, (which you must be by now)

consider using Berlin ( http://berlin.sourceforge.net/ )  as the 
windowing environment and interface.

it's a mature piece that just needs to be ported (plus all its 
dependencies ported which is the harder part - when building on beos, i had 
probs with glut and pthread 
support and until this day couldn't compile on beos, but then again, 
I'm just a user :))
anyway, it's the best piece of open gui kit and windowing environment 
i've seen (and i looked) that doesn't use X.
by now it's pretty much stable (haven't changed in awhile), and is 
generally developed by development of its parts.
the parts it uses are of very high quality, like project ggi, freetype, 
artlib, etc.
we still need to see how using corba will effect the speed, if at all. 
(not sure about the design plus i never stress-tested Berlin)

anyway, we can make it work for us, and the community.
using a mature project, which isn't mature enough to be a replacement 
for e.g. X11/free86
but has good technology underneath and well thought out design would 
prove to be a good decision i think.

this way you don't have to reinvent the wheel, while avoiding bad 
technology (this is a project from the recent years)
hope you'll give proven technology a chance before trying to recode 
everything.
(besides, we're lazy, and would like to see 
advances/improvements/bugfixes/performance and other changelog entries while 
doing nothing (berlin 
and all its 
dependencies advance each day))
Thanks, hope this will make a better os for all of us.
Kobi.

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