HaikuFox theme updated
Stephen B. - February 17th, 2006
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Archive for the ‘News’ Category Developer “tigerdog” continues to tweak HaikuFox, his NetPositive-esque theme for the Firefox browser. His latest release, posted on the 15th, includes several adjustments and additions; from the Version Details:
It’s definitely one of the nicest overall Firefox/Mozilla themes that I’ve used and it really helps make Firefox feel more like a native application in BeOS. Keep up the great work! Thanks to Mr. X for pointing out the new release.
I was a little slow-on-the draw noticing this one – mea culpa – but the Haiku Project recently published their latest newsletter after a bit of silence on that front. This edition marks a change in format for the Haiku Newsletter – in Michael Phipps’ words:
The changes work well, I think, and the news & views from Haiku developers are a great read as always.
An excellent article has been posted on Studio-33, 0033 has taken a recent Haiku build for a spin and written up his experiences. It’s a fascinating read, especially for those of us who are interested in Haiku but haven’t had a chance to play with it lately – it’s really quite amazing to see how far Haiku has come. There’s also a nice description of the steps necessary to install Haiku, and – for the voyeurs in the audience – plenty of screenshots.
YellowBites Software recently released version 2.0 of their vector graphics program WonderBrush. While I’ve followed the development of Refraction and Pixel32 with interest, I tend to use Adobe Illustrator much more frequently than Photoshop, so WonderBrush is personally more exciting to me. To get an idea of what the software is capable of, I attempted to do a few of the basic tasks I commonly perform in Illustrator. Read on for the pseudo-review, which also contains some hints on how to perform basic vector drawing operations in WonderBrush. Read More »
0033 of Studio-33 has dug up some new information on the forthcoming BeSides Magazine, which was recently announced by Vassilis ‘vasper’ Perantzakis of BeOS Max fame. The site mentions that the group has already been contacted by several people wishing to contribute, and they’re still looking for anyone else who’s willing to write reviews, editorials, interviews, etc for the magazine. So if you’re itching to write for a BeOS-related magazine, head over and get in touch with them.
Another interesting piece of information from Studio-33, 0033 has posted about a great source of Haiku information that I hadn’t been aware of: Weekly Haiku. In a nutshell, it’s a blog where regular summaries of the most significant recent Haiku developments are posted – an excellent way for us non-programmers to get an overview of Haiku’s development. One significant recent update mentions that a problem with Haiku-R5 compatibility has been fixed – apparently executables compiled in recent Haiku builds would not run in R5. Work has also been done on the PS2 mouse/keyboard drivers, as well as on the PS2 subsystem itself. And lastly, but probably of the most immediate interest to end-users, A.G.M. Smith has submitted new documentation covering multiple mail-related topics.
Here’s a short roundup of BeBits postings lately. The IM Kit project has released an MSN login fix for the recently-posted Alpha 12 – as the name implies, it should fix MSN login glitches that crept into the latest release. BeOS users who are into lossless audio have a pretty decent range of options these days; the Monkey Audio (APE) Suite was updated not long ago, and this week saw the release of a FLAC plugin for SoundPlay. Another FLAC package was released on BeOS in 2002 (updated Sept. 2005), but it appears to contain a command-line encoder and no decoder/playback software. A new build of the Seamonkey browser (formerly Mozilla Suite) was also posted recently – this release is BONE-only and includes the usual bugfixes and optimizations. Lastly, two related pieces of software were posted this last week, the first was an update to the Haiku Multiaudio MediaAddon which adds support for 24 and 32-bit audio. The same developer – Jerome Duval – also released updated versions of the BeOS Echo Audio drivers with 24/32-bit support (only tested with the 3g so far, but it appears to be enabled for all the hardware).
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