[openbeos] Re: Haiku distribution

  • From: jan matejek <matejcik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:28:01 +0200

Ingo Weinhold napsal(a):
> On 2007-04-14 at 18:22:40 [+0200], Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>   
>> Drive Setup is mostly non-existent at this point. It was one of the
>> 1001 projects I wanted to work on, but I haven't had time for it for a
>> while. We do want some similar functionality to Parted, and the new
>> Disk Device Management API can provide a lot of this. The problem we
>> have is that the DDM has to be completed before a fully working Drive
>> Setup GUI can be completed. I have some initial (hand) drawings of the
>> GUI mock-up I was thinking for the new Drive Setup, and I might make
>> some bitmap versions as well for people to comment on.
>>
>> Obviously if someone else has more time and has experience with disk
>> management, feel free to work on this.
>>     
>
> Three students showed interest in working on the DDM stuff as a project for 
> some class, including a CLI partitioning tool. If that turns out not to be 
> enough work, a GUI tool would be an extension
...which would be me and my colleagues. Ryan, if you have some ideas
about how such gui tool should work, please make them public (or at
least send them to me). While i can't guarantee that we will get so far
as the GUI part, it is always good to know how the interface is supposed
to look like.

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