Comment from jan
Time: September 5, 2006, 2:30 pm

Gee! You guys stole a lot of ideas from MacOSX!

Comment from anonymous coward
Time: September 6, 2006, 3:40 am

Quite cool, but… nothing new to see here. I mean, it’s a good video to show the look and feel of Haiku OS, but everything that is shown here, has been around at the time of BeOS already.

I know that the target of Haiku is to have a binary-compatible open-source equivalent of BeOS, but then again, it’s needless to show things most people interested in BeOS and Haiku already know… They’d be better off with some screenshots or a video that shows the different and new things of Haiku (compared to BeOS).

Comment from Stefan
Time: September 6, 2006, 4:49 am

Neither informative nor useful

Comment from Josh
Time: September 6, 2006, 4:59 am

Wow, beautiful. Wish I could get an exact replica of the interface for GNU/Linux. Something about it is just so beautiful, I can bearly explain it. It’s simple and peaceful and makes me feel good and clean.

Comment from sikosis
Time: September 7, 2006, 7:48 pm

@jan … you might be interested to know that BeOS was written by some ex-Apple employees all those years ago. When I saw Leopard was getting “Spaces” I thought about time. Then when I heard Amber Mac on MacBreak saying that “Spaces” was the coolest thing she’d seen I had to smile rather smugly ;)

@anonymous coward … Not a bad idea. True there was nothing new in the video, it was mainly to show how far along the guys at Haiku are.

@Stefan … thats ok … maybe one day we’ll impress you.

@Josh … that might be quite possible … you’ll be able to “theme” the OS by way of wallpapers, icons, and border decors.

Comment from Cax
Time: September 8, 2006, 4:02 am

Apple should say, as they did with fast user switching, that spaces is not a new idea or feature, but that it is the best implementation so far. Apple’s strength is innovation, not invention.

I am very excited over Haiku progress, and I hope the project will be able to attract developers and users on a big enough scale.

The Wasp-theme for gnome (in gnome-themes-extras) is BeOS-looking and nice :)

In KDE, I think you can have the BeOS-style window decorations/tabs, which are functional and move about and stuff.

Comment from BeMark
Time: September 9, 2006, 5:14 pm

Wow, that looked really impressive. I didn’t realize they had that much working, and with all that beos goodness underneath. Once the networking and connection stacks are going, it will be ready to use (won’t it?).

Thanks for the video, Sikosis.

Comment from Peter
Time: September 9, 2006, 6:44 pm

Cool video, looks like Haiku has retained the level of responsiveness that made BeOS so lovely to use. Good to see how much progress has been made too, thanks.

Comment from nutela
Time: September 12, 2006, 2:41 am

Find! Why didn’t you do query? You could have done that for the people file you created, email from etc., show some more in your next Haiku vidcastlike Tracker related stuff, sort by multiple attributes, drag’n'drop text (when it’s implemented) to various apps, sliding tabs! show how useful they can be, show that the deskbar can be replaced to various corners, traverse the file system with right click onto a tracker window or desktop, drag files with right mouse button (move, copy, link), drop a file onto an icon to have it opened, make clippings, show some useful apps (like gobe productive or im kit or anything which shall make people say “Wow!”.
Thanks Sikosis!