What apps do you need on Haiku?

[DJBase]

From HaikuDepot… just uncheck “recommended apps”… but only for 32bit system AFAIK…

[dwt]

Ah, that would be why I couldn’t see it! Thank you!

[waddlesplash]

Beam’s source code is pretty messy, I don’t think anyone really wants to try to maintain it…

There have been a lot of fixes to Haiku’s built-in Mail over the past few weeks, and we intend to keep that momentum up. So, hopefully for Beam or other mail users, it will be viable to switch, before too long.

[Knez]

GnuCOBOL actually compiles more or less out of the box, at least on the 64bit release of Haiku. I will be adding a recepie to HaikuPorts as soon as I have the time

[TmTFx]

well posted there I know I’m late:

Haiku features I'd like to see

I’d like to see: 1- Haiku API bindings for Python 2- Falkon and a native webkit2 browser 3- Dropbox, Onecloud, googledrive, Nextcloud integration in tracker and deskbar 4- Openvpn 5- Virtualization layer like kvm (after 3d accelerants) 6- SSH, samba and nfs gui integration/add-ons installed by default and an easy way to connect to a server right from Tracker

[Begasus]

Already did a nftp recipe that wasn’t merged because lack of interest, worked pretty fine at that time: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/pull/1704

[konrad]

Some of the things I would like to see:

1. Modern browser. Webpositive is good for some browsing but Facebook and larger sites makes it crawl for me. Apple Music/Netflix/HBO/AmazonPrime support. Slack.
2. Sonos Controller (might work soon with Node.js).
3. Full Swift 5.x support and Be(Haiku)API bindings.
4. Koder + auto complete.

[forart.it]

Internet:

• Tribler torrent client
• uGet download manager
• Psiphon client

Video:

• mpv-like player
• Olive video editor
• HandBrake encoder GUI

Audio:

• DeaDBeeF (or Audacious)-like “audiophile” player
• CUETools (re)encoder/tagger/ripper GUI
• Ardour DAW

[steveh2009]

How about getting 2 or 3 core Haiku developers to work on Calvin’s stuck port of Mono? There’s just one bug that’s stopping everything from continuing.

[dwt]

Developers aren’t paid or assigned to work; they just pick it up if they’re interested in it…

[steveh2009]

No duh. I’m telling you what it’s going to take to get the problem solved. The average drive-by ain’t gonna cut it.

[dwt]

What “problem”? Even if you got Mono working, any UIs would need to be completely recoded unless they’re web-based…

[PulkoMandy]

It takes an interested developer. The reason I work on Haiku is because I like the native APIs and their ease of use, therefore I see little needs in porting every toolkit and programming language out there. Find another victim!

[kim1963]

maxrd2/SubtitleComposer

https://launchpad.net/~subtitlecomposer

https://store.kde.org/p/1126783

[cb88]

Mono depends on GTK… so that would be required not rewriting, though rewriting to render to BeAPI would probably be preferable it may not be truly feasible.

[dwt]

Does it? I thought Mono was just the (ported) CLR and the compiler, and the optional GTK# port required GTK?

If Haiku goes anywhere near .Net, I think the CoreCLR is the way to go, rather than Mono.

[pvalue]

Kaffeine TV

[extrowerk]

Bazel : https://bazel.build/

[cb88]

No there is a functional port of winforms also… which depends on GTK IIRC.

In any case CoreCLR and Mono are developed by the same teams I believe these days…

I have a winforms application I wrote in VS then did minimal changes to get it working in Mono…I even took the binary built with mono on Linux and ran it on MS’s .net …