[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #11480: A complementary Haiku web application persona
- From: "waddlesplash" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:25:47 -0000
#11480: A complementary Haiku web application persona
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Reporter: jonas.kirilla | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: - General | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by waddlesplash):
-1 from me overall, but specifically:
- Haiku has "decorator" support, and there is a way to theme the default
controls (BControlLook) it just needs a bit of work to be able to do the
100% visual makeover that's possible elsewhere
- C++ is nice. Getting rid of it would require rewriting 99% of Haiku.
That's not the scope of this project.
- app_server's limitations are merely the result of lack of developer
time to add features, that's all.
- Haiku '''''is and hopefully always will be''''' a desktop OS. If we go
mobile-only, count me out. Supporting ARM is great, adding a touch-based
UI is not the scope of this project. (Supporting touchscreen laptops is,
but only insofar as touch-to-scroll, etc.) Third-party apps welcome (but
won't be default nor included by default).
- That doesn't help, we'd still have to write drivers to get the OS
itself booting. If you can run a web stack, you can run everything else
Haiku currently can do.
- Also not the scope of this project. Third-party apps welcome.
- Huh? How do you write an OS without a kernel?! Are you saying that we
reduce Haiku to an application, not an OS?
- Multiuser is on the TODO list for R2, we already are committed to doing
that (the kernel supports multiuser already, the userland just does not.)
- You'd still have to have C++ (or some other low level language)
somewhere to interface with the hardware
- Not the scope of this project. See TideSDK or Breach's "Thrust", they
already can do that.
- We already do this (media_addon_server, DataTranslators, "hey", cross-
app BMessaging, etc.)
This is not the Haiku I want. This is not the OS I want. Sure the web is
nice, but I like having native apps too.
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