[haiku-development] Re: Adding screensavers and fonts

  • From: Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:11:00 +0100

Hi!

On 18/01/2014, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here's an idea that might work for fonts, and might work for screensavers
> too. We create a small app that opens when you double click on a font file.
> The app allows you to create an hpkg file and installs it. You could even
> allow the user to fill in the package name and description.

As screensavers are Haiku specific programs, they will come as a hpkg
anyway. It's really only the platform indeppendent fonts that are the
issue.
I don't think having a user go through the process of creating a
package is very friendly.

Regards,
Humdinger

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