[openbeos] suggestions for R1
- From: Marco Zanon <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 17:07:41 +0200
Hi,
these are my suggestions for OBOS R1 (another post for R2 to
come...), I hope they may be realized and don't break the OBOS
"tradition and look&feel"... :)
1) move the Tracker on the left, so the popup menu open towards
right;
2) move the menu folders (Applications, Games, Preferences, etc.)
on the beginning of the menu, and the rest (restart, shutdown,
recent applications, etc.) on the last part;
3) have a big control panel which contains ("embeds", like in KDE
or Gnome Control Centers) all configuration apps (networking,
devices, background, etc.);
4) take the GPL'ed code from POle, which is a library for reading
OLE streams from files (it could be useful to developers to have
such a library shipped with the operating system), and is
included in the KOffice cvs tree (but AFAIK it is written in
C/C++ only, no Qt or Kde code);
5) invite, if possible, developers of drivers (found on
bebits.com) to release their drivers with an opensource license,
possibly MIT: this would attract much more people to OBOS;
(the same for some other applications, obviously :)
6) choose a definitive name for the project, be it OBOS or
something else, so that it is possible to create the final logo,
to prepare a renewed web site (I'll send my ideas about that to
webmasters, or in another post) and to notice your friends of an
upcoming operating system :)
thanks :)
Marco Zanon [http://www.marcozanon.com]
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