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OS/2 - ArcaOS Santa's List for 2025
Martin Iturbide:
Hello
Do you think it is time to review again our Santa's list for the platform?
On December of 2023 I sent this file to Lewis (Impress file attached) like a summary of the wishlist forum discussion. Please remember that this does not mean that all of this has to be done by Arca Noae. It can also provide some inspiration to other developer/porters to help out the user needs.
--- Code: ---[b]HARDWARE[/b]
- Wifi Support
- Audio and Camera support for a Videoconference tool (Web based).
- Bluetooth support for Keyboard and Mouse.
- 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express.
- Dual Screen Support
- - Intel HD dual screen support. (To mirror screen or extend screen)
- - Easier Hot plug to projectors. (To mirror screen or extend screen)
- Video support for HDMI and DP output
- Video support for USB-C output
- Audio support for HDMI or DP output
- Hibernate support for PCs / Laptops.
- Standby support for PCs / Laptops.
- Special Keys support for volume (mute, mic) and brightness support. (Most common in laptop computers)
[b]SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS[/b]
- Qt 6
- OpenJDK 18 (Java)
- GTK+
- Node.js / Atom (for stand alone Node.js applications)
- KDE
- OpenGL Support
[b]SOFTWARE[/b]
- Otter. Web browser
- Falkon. Web browser
- Eclipse. Development IDE
- The GIMP. Photo edition tool
- Inkscape. Illustration tool
- Audacity. Sound recording editing tool
- QEMU. Machine emulator and virtualizer.
- Openscad . The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller.
- QCAD. 2D CAD
- R. Statistics, 3-D and dynamic graphics
- TeX live. Recent version of the TeX typesetting program, successor o teTeX.
- Kate. Text editor.
- Notepad++. Text Editor
- Peazip. Archiver tool
- OBS. Video streaming, desktop recording.
- KDevelop. Development IDE.
- Lazarus. Development IDE.
- wxWidgets. C++ library GUI API (Update it)
- LibreOffice. Since OpenOffice seems to be evolving to slow
- Upplay. A Qt-based UPnP audio Control Point
- Audacity. Audio Editor
[b]Platform Improvement Wishlist[/b]
- Memory Management
- Improvements TCP/IP Stack to support IPV6
- GUI Improvements
- ArcaOS Developer Kit
--- End code ---
What do you think? Did something else change from December of 2023 to today?
Is there some other new requirement that showed up on 2024?
Regards
Martin Iturbide:
Hello
I think that the "ArcaOS Developer Kit" was covered this year with AN's update the website - "Information for Developers".
- https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/information-for-developers/
With their list of tools and the release of David's OpenWatcom and IBM Toolkit bundles I think this subject got more clarity.
Regards
JTA:
Discussed a few times, and brought it up again (remotely at 2024 warpstock), but please add an entry for Winflector into the software section:
winflector.com
Goal would be to get the Winflector folks to produce a native 32-bit OS/2 client, by porting their linux 32-bit client over to OS/2. I'm trying to facilitate ArcaNoae, Winflector (and possibly Paul S.) to get together and get this client porting effort done. If it happens, then we have pretty much any 64-bit app available to us under OS/2, ArcaOS, in a native OS/2 window frame.
Currently, Winflector works with OS/2 via their HTML5 client ... I show that this works in my AToF post:
https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,3502.0.html
... and here is the Winflector "request" for native winflector 32-bit client for OS/2:
https://www.winflector.com/store/forum/topic-view/id/610
Currently, Winflector's HTML5 client relies on older browsers for OS/2, which tend to not be developed much beyond their last version ever released. This HTML5 support works, and we can get 64-bit apps into OS/2, but ... a native OS/2 client would be so much better.
Thanks!
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: JTA on December 05, 2024, 06:57:02 pm ---Discussed a few times, and brought it up again (remotely at 2024 warpstock), but please add an entry for Winflector into the software section:
--- End quote ---
Looks like it is closed source.
JTA:
Sure, it's closed source ... Winflector folks own it, but note that they are producing clients for other platforms: win, linux, RPi, mac, android, html5 ...
We just need folks (ArcaOS, Paul S. ... you?) to help them get the client ported to OS/2 & ArcaOS ... I just don't know what that help looks like, but ArcaNoae, Paul, and hopefully others can work with them and possibly make it happen?
The benefits would be huge ... any 64-bit app, "running" under OS/2 in a native PM desktop window ...
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