Insight Factory

A log of challenges and screenshots as I help develop Haiku http://www.haiku-os.org

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Desktop folder showing all the way back to root Desktop (Show Disks setting adds Disks).

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Check out this hilarity in Open with... window, I guess nobody bothered to check...

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Switch workspace makes more sense as an Applications setting not a Window setting. Window settings are for the Deskbar window while Application settings affect apps inside Deskbar (i.e. running apps).

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Deskbar preferences with new Switch workspace setting. What does this do? It allows the Twicher (activated on Ctrl+Tab) to switch workspaces when switching between apps. Ordinarily it will refuse to switch workspaces when you try to switch to a window on a different workspace.

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Trash returns to file panels with warp to Desktop. Meaning it shows like it's on Desktop because well, it is.

It's not really but we're pretending that it is... a bit better now. Trash is actually present on the root of each volume and is hidden and then the Trash on Desktop is a merge of all the hidden trash directories put together. This way we can pretend like there's just one Trash but you can still unmount a volume and take the trashed items with you.

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Pop up indicator added to count view (the bottom left view). Clicking it opens a pop-up menu (what BeOS and Haiku call drop-down menus) that shows and allows you to open parent folders up to root. The root directory (turned on by Show disks Tracker setting) does not get a pop-up indicator because there's no parent directory to go to.

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Semi-transparent dragged selected file name labels. These look a bit better than the fully opaque version. There were some complaints about the way Tracker icons look on drag since it was changed to draw selected. The earlier change added contrast to label so you could see it better but we can (maybe) sacrifice a bit of contrast for looks.

On funky Desktop background to show transparency. Light mode on top, dark mode on bottom.

(dragged selected cut file actually cut on dark mode image, it's even more transparent)

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Automatically sniff types when opening a folder, old on top new on bottom.

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Big list mode icons return!

At 16pt font size.

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Alternative dead key trigger options. But more importantly I put the accent characters as shortcuts in the menu.

You can't really type them I don't think as they are utf-8 characters but they are nice to look at and you can click on the menu to get the first option.

Unfortunately I had to leave Grave shortcut out as it is the one ASCII accent character and so it would have triggered any time you typed backtick `. This is what it would have looked like.

Edit: Grave shortcut restored!

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Good looking documentation on BEntry::Exists().

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Edit in Tracker... button moved to menu field. Makes window shorter by tucking away this less used option.

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Queries needs a new color. This mint green color is meant to resemble engineering paper. Light mode on top, dark on bottom. What do you think?

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Menu keyboard nav demonstration.

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Crayon or colored pencil?

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You can run color pickers as separate apps if you want. Drag and drop works so these are workable on their own. (It works better inside a picker panel though.)

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MediaPlayer Subtitle using BColorWell and Default color picker.