More about OOffice
0033 - April 19th, 2007
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Archive for 2007 Two days ago I posted about new office applications coming to the BeOS/Haiku platform. I’ll admit that the title of my post was a little bit to enthusiastic. As Oliver (the developer of OOffice) notes on his blog he is mostly working on a “Office Development Framework” and he can hardly find the time to get some code written. Also he notes that he is not going to be able to finish this alone but wants to show what is possible in a short amount of time. For Olivier his Mentor task in the Haiku GSoC is obviously much more important. Unfortunately OSNews took my post a bit to literal and the whole story blew up making it seem like a new office suite for the Be platform was about to be released. I’d like to take the opportunity to say sorry to Olivier who got overwhelmed by questions and comments about his hobby project. I really do like the initiative he started and hope that it will attract some more developers. A decent, actively maintained, application for text and spreadsheet documents is lacking from BeOS at the moment. Olivier writes about the discussion that OSNews and I caused on his blog, read his post here.
As you can read on Haiku-os.org a new team has been formed, the Documentation Team. The Doc Team will be providing current and future Haiku dev’s with up-to-date documentation, in the form of a new Haiku API, written from scratch.
If you want to help go to the Haiku website to find out how. There is more news about Haiku, Micheal Lotz has updated his blog with a long and interesting post about the Haiku USB stack, read it here. Besides that Brian Varner reports that the bittorent client transmission is now running on Haiku. Go to his page for a nice screenshot.
Leszeks (known form Teckview and LL Electronics, both in German) has created a new Video tutorial. Unlike the previous ones this one is in English and is about the usage of Haiku’s Icon-O-Matic.
Get the Icon-O-Matic Video tutorial here. Also about icons, on ICO frankps posts about Haiku’s wonderfull icons,
The recent announcement from Vasper about his WalterOS plans has invoked a lot of discussion on the Haiku mailinglist and OSNews. Following all the discussion Vasper posted an response on his blog in which he explains his views and feelings about distributing the Haiku system. Most importantly, Vasper writes that he will not release anything before Haiku reaches R1, also he states that he strongly feels that the Haiku team should create a set of rules for possible distributions. Also on the distro discussion, Petter wrote a very nice piece about his thoughs on the matter, personally I share most of his views. I too think that it would be more wise to create easy to install application packs that bundle software. For instance there could be a ‘Development pack’, ‘Internet Pack (email, chat, ftp, bittorent and such), a pack with graphics tools or a ‘Games Pack’. This way there could be one base system with the most basic applications, lots of drivers, localization and a good package installer. In the meantime, the Australian Haiku user group OzHug also proposed a distribution of Haiku. I can only hope that all this will benefit the Haiku base and will not create unnessecary duplications of the same thing.
Yet another interesting milestone has been reached by the Haiku project: the first publically-accessible webserver powered by the OS. According to HaikuNews, Urias McCullough has setup the server using the app RobinHood – the site itself is located at binarychicken.com:575. While BeOS itself was never ideally-suited to server-related tasks, it still a good indication of how far Haiku has come. And, as has been reported elsewhere over the weekend, the Haiku project has announced that JMicron has offered to support the development of Haiku drivers for their SATA controller hardware. The support will include the technical documentation necessary to create the drivers and hardware for testing purposes. Details have also been posted by OSNews, HaikuNews, and IsComputerOn.
Spotted on the BeZilla blog, tqh has written a handy guide for anyone interested in building Cairo. The guide, which has been posted to the BeBits wiki, covers the many steps and dependencies needed to build Cairo – which is itself necessary for building Firefox. There has also been a small update to the HaikuFox theme, bringing it to version 0.4.8. Users can either download the update from BeBits – or it’s already installed, you can simply use the automatic updates feature in Firefox.
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