Now that beta6 is out, and some major improvements have been done for system reliability, I am curious what improvements to the core OS (that is, not software ports) people are interested in for beta7?
I’ll start by listing my pain points:
Proper support of european keyboards (alt-gr)
Log viewer for services so stuff like mail_daemon can be debugger or checked on without restart (also filtered syslog etc)
I have a Mega STE with an ATW800/2 card, which has a virtual transputer module. So, if someone wanted to port Haiku to the transputer modules, I think that would be spiffy.
I already got USB audio working on my docking station.
The next steps are figuring out the remaining problems with ACPI and i2c_hid, and then it would be nice to have intel_extreme do dual displays support finally (for which I have to start with more i2c: figuring out why the DDC over DisplayPort to DVI adapter is not working…).
Other things that would be nice are eMMC and DDC/CI, the latter would allow to set the brightness and other parameters for external displays (no need to navigate their built-in On-Screen-Display interface anymore…).
With that done I’d consider support for my current hardware reasonably complete, and I could focus on applications or doing other non-Haiku things for once
Waddlesplash did a bit of cleanup in the R1 milestone on Trac, but there are still 464 tickets to resolve. Assuming we don’t discover anything new or decide to actually add in things from some of our wishlists
I would like to see some improvements in the FAT and USB driver. I saw some incompatibilities trying to mount FAT32 drives because of how they were formatted initially.
+1 for multiprocess WebKit2 in WebPositive.
Also,an Adblocker is a absolute must-have nowadays and should be included.
I very much appreciate the work on Bluetooth and hope to use my Bluetooth mouse or keyboard that I haven’t used for years (but it’s not really important,USB devices work perfectly fine)
Besides that,Haiku has all the features I need,but there are some missing drivers that would allow me to run Haiku on more of my devices.
eMMC storage support
i2c input device support
Support for the touchscreen in my laptop (might be i2c,I don’t remember)
Basically: AltGr and the left “windows” key do the same thing; while alt and the right “windows” key do the same thing.
This is not so noticeable because a lot of keyboards don’t have a right windows key or people don’t use it. And usually altgr is used in combination with other keys, but the window key is used in combination with the mouse for window management. So, luckily the interferenge is not so bad.