Slaad adds customisable toolbar to im_client
Stephen B. - February 21st, 2006
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Studio-33 has spotted some intersting work being done on the im_client by Slaad, im_kit contributor and all-around foutain of cool application ideas (QueryWatcher, Snoopy, etc). First off, he’s added a customisable toolbar – if a program is capable of opening People files, a link to it can be placed in ~/config/settings/im_kit/im_client/toolbar and its icon will show up in the im_client’s toolbar. Clicking on the toolbar icon will run that application on the current person; on Slaad’s blog, he shows a screenshot with a Snoopy icon added to the toolbar. The second change he’s made is to replace the “User is typing…” notification with an icon (screenshot). And if that weren’t enough, he’s also been hacking away at the info_popper lately. Great work, Slaad, I can’t wait to try out the modifcations.
Weekly Haiku, the Haiku Project’s roundup of recent development progress, has just posted their Feb. 21st issue. The update covers a wide range of topics including work on bootup debug output and the syslog daemon, advancements in PCI support, and the elimination of a few bugs related to graphics and memory accesses. Most significantly, a more recent PCI ID database has been added, which should bring improvements to PCI device identification, and there has also been recent work specific to PCI support on the PPC platform. An update was also posted on the 16th of February, as reported on over at Studio-33. In that update, we find details of some progress on the Haiku Installer application, as well as Marcus Overhagen’s recent work on Haiku’s PS2 busmanager. And of course, Rudolf Cornelissen has been working on more graphics related items than I can count. Head on over to Weekly Haiku for all the details!
It looks like the sever gremlins (or is that graemlins?) are having their way with BeOS news sites these days; BeGroovy has been offline for the last week or two and recently IsComputerOn has been displaying an error page. The admins of both sites have my sympathies and “get well soon” wishes, I know firsthand how maddening it can be to clean up after server problems. In the meantime, BeOSNews recommends IsComputerOnFire as a temporary substitute.
In addition to changing the format of the Haiku newsletter, the publishing rate appears to have been accelerated – Studio-33 has spotted a new single-article newsletter less than two weeks after the last one. The latest issue features an editorial by Michael Phipps titled “Top 20 Reasons Why I Think That Haiku is Still Relevant“; the list is a good combination of general BeOS strengths and unique advantages that Haiku offers. I particlarly liked his last point:
Aw well, shucks, we do try :)
After 6 months of being exiled to single processor slot1 land (stupid accident with a screwdriver while installing a heatsink), the VP6 I picked up on eBay arrived today and I’m back in BeOS heaven. The repution of BeOS’ SMP capabilities has become almost mythical online, but the difference on multiprocessor machines really is noticeable. It’s not so much that the system runs “faster” per se, it just becomes more or less impossible to make it run slowly. And it brings a warm glow of BeOS user pride to my heart to see a BeOS machine with two 1Ghz P3s give my Windows machine (an AthlonXP 2800) a run for its money in many tasks, like video encoding. I apologize for the digression into vanity-blogging, it’s just damn nice to once again be using a machine worthy of running BeOS.
Well, it appears that the solution to my problem with Mail Daemon Replacement and spam filtering was easier than I thought – thanks to BiPolar for pointing out the answer (and not ridiculing my obtuseness). It turns out that I simply needed to escape the square brackets in [Spam] – which I would have known if I’d read the MDR “README” file. Whoops. Read on for the details, and to have a good laugh at my newbie-ish mistake.
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.
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