Haiku Gets Slidey Tabs
Stephen B. - June 20th, 2006
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Kian Duffy of HaikuNews has spotted a SVN checkin made by Fran??ois Revol (mmu_man) which enables horizontal sliding of window title tabs in Haiku. “Slidey tabs” were always one of my favourite little touches from R4.5/R5 (and pretty much indispensable for heavy BeMail users), it’s great to see the feature make its way into Haiku.
A sad story has been posted on HaikuNews, ZetaNews.com has apparently shut down. The site was originally the brainchild of Frans Van Nipsen (of Xentronix fame), and was later handed over to other editors such as the_leander. ZetaNews had been a fixture in the ZETA / BeOS community for nearly three years and it will be missed from my daily reading list.
A new Weekly Haiku update has been posted, showing off the break-neck pace of Haiku development. After some work, the networking kit is now able to respond to pings from remote machines; a few more R5 backwards-compatibility features have been added (in order to get BeIDE running); Haiku Images now include the hmulti audio driver and the Background preferences app as a Tracker add-on; the Workspaces app now supports switching workspaces and moving applications between workspaces; and lastly there’s a neat screenshot showing Quake 2 running under Haiku.
The second episode of the Haiku Podcast has been online for a little while now (reported by ICO), produced and hosted by Phil Greenway (sikosis). In the newest episode he interviews Michael Phipps, the Haiku project leader; Michael touches on many interesting topics in the interview, including HaikuBounties and the migration to the FreeBSD networking stack. Later on in the podcast, sikosis announces BePodder as the latest application of the month and there’s also a summary of some of the latest BeOS / Haiku-related news.
There has been such a flurry of ZETA-related news lately that it’s hard to know where to begin. First, ZETA 1.2 is now available to purchase from resellers such as Mensys. Second, as HaikuNews and IsComputerOn have already reported, ZETA now has a new worldwide distributor by the name of Magnussoft – the official yellowTAB announcement can be found here. A new ZETA-related site has been launched by Magnussoft – ZETA-OS.com (there is an English translation of some of the content over at IsComputerOn). And lastly, PowerDreams has an interview with a Magnussoft PR person (credit to ICO once again), an English translation can be found here.
There’s a great guided tour of the new ZETA 1.2 over at ZetaJournal, prOSy has posted nearly 30 screenshots in their forum. The screenshots cover the installation and use of ZETA 1.2, and highlight some of the new features and changes in action – the tweaks to the much-criticised ZETA UI look very nice, as do the new settings for wireless networking.
HaikuNews recently reported on a problem encountered by the BeZilla developers: Firefox (and several related projects) have recently begun using the SQLite database engine for storing information like bookmarks, and this introduced problems into the build process. The problem was related to the fact that SQLite doesn’t (didn’t) support the native BeOS threading model. Just about a week later, Kian Duffy posted a follow up with the news that native BeOS threading has been implemented in SQLite – thanks to Ren?? Gollent and Fran??ois Revol (aka “mmu_man”), Firefox can now be built for BeOS again and new builds have been released on BeBits in the last few days. Besides the under-the-hood modifications, the most prominent change is that Firefox now supports inline spell checking of text entered into web-based forms – could this mean the end of OSNews comments about the reprocutions of pooring heatred into the holy grale?
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