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BrainStorm: Wish list for OS/2 and eComStation

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Andy Willis:

--- Quote from: David McKenna on November 17, 2014, 03:40:35 pm --- Items not already being worked on:

-Multiple sound streams for UniAud (my pet peeve)
-Updated OpenGL
-Updated VBox
-Updated SNAP
-USB3
-Intel WiFi drivers
-Bluetooth

  I also agree with Andi B's comments on AOO and Seamonkey, but they are in development...

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Though still in initial phase, Intel WIFI drivers are being worked on (Arca Noae).
USB3 is still in the design phase as it is fundamentally different from USB2 and how to implement it is still being determined; Lars spoke a bit on this at Warpstock.
Bluetooth, no work on it at this point but Lewis has asked how much interest there would be for Bluetooth and for what functions to determine if there is enough interest for Arca Noae to build these.  He posted on the eCS technical list back in September. 

Alex Taylor:
A new text rendering & layout engine for PM, probably based on FreeType + Harbuzz, to replace the out-of-date and no-longer-maintained Innotek Font Engine. Probably only available as a development library, not a runtime replacement like Ft2LIB (which was a cool idea but just not stable enough).  Hopefully this could allow us to finally retire FT2LIB for apps like OpenOffice, for which it is still an anchor around the neck.  (If really ambitious it could be the basis for a new Unicode-capable widget library for PM-based apps like PMMail or ProNews.)  This is one of the big three things that I've long wanted to try tackling myself, but I just don't have the time right now.

UEFI and GPT support.

An IPv6 stack.

Already mentioned by others:
- A solution for the shared memory problem.
- USB3.
- New WiFi drivers for modern adapters.

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Alex Taylor on November 17, 2014, 05:32:21 pm ---A new text rendering & layout engine for PM, probably based on FreeType + Harbuzz, to replace the out-of-date and no-longer-maintained Innotek Font Engine. Probably only available as a development library, not a runtime replacement like Ft2LIB (which was a cool idea but just not stable enough).  Hopefully this could allow us to finally retire FT2LIB for apps like OpenOffice, for which it is still an anchor around the neck.  (If really ambitious it could be the basis for a new Unicode-capable widget library for PM-based apps like PMMail or ProNews.)  This is one of the big three things that I've long wanted to try tackling myself, but I just don't have the time right now.

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Don't we already have that in Cairo? It works pretty well for Mozilla, pretty sure it can use harbuzz (have to try enabling it in Mozilla) and has even been adapted to the WPS, where unluckily it was somewhat fragile.
For something like OO it would probably be too much of a change but other apps could be converted to use it.

guzzi:
Many of the things listed I'd like to see too.
I'll add just one:
Skype

R.M. Klippstein:
Virtual Box is being worked on and has been for over 4 months now, with disappointing progress, but yes progress. I've managed to compile 4 different working early versions of VirtualBox sources. But my limited experience and knowledge with GCC is the reason I'm unable to progress, so far, on 5 newer versions that I'm trying to get to compile. Help I've received from  Dave Yeo is the only reason I've been able to get this far.
  I would welcome any person proficient in compiling with GCC, limited knowledge of the internal workings of VirtualBox, and having an abundance of time and patience, willing to put up with my short comings, to help me get a usable more up-to-date version of VirtualBox for the OS/2 community.

klipp
rklipp@megared.net.mx

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