After nearly three years without an official release, OpenTracker 5.3.0 has been released to BeBits. Currently only available for x86 (a PPC build is requested by Axel), OT 5.3 adds a basic calendar display to Deskbar, the ability to quit apps via Switcher, the ability to undo/redo Tracker actions, and many bug fixes, from stability to font sensitivity. Many of the latter issues were found initially on Haiku, where Tracker also runs.
Old problems solved (at least that ‘freezing’ bug) and other stuff. I don’t know what to say about the calendar so far.
It’s great to see development – fuelled by Haiku development itself.
I put my bets on Haiku as an alternative to Linux and Windows. Let’s see how far it goes.
Hey, Haiku has its own OSNews icon!
Yes and no. We removed the BeOS icon and now all “BeOS and its derivatives” related stories will be under the Haiku icon.
Yes, I noted that shortly after my post. It is appreciated nonetheless – and I believe it’s a well-deserved nod from the OSNews site
It’s nice but the left bar of the ‘H’ haven’t the same size as the right one
Probably a loss while resizing..
Eugenia,
seeing as Haiku doesn’t actually run this version of Tracker – the Haiku Tracker is a _port_ of this version, not the same exe, I think using the Haiku Icon is a little misleading.
By _port_ I mean port. It is not the same code base recompiled, as I understand it.
Edited 2006-08-03 12:31
“By _port_ I mean port. It is not the same code base recompiled, as I understand it. ”
It IS the same code base recompiled.
There are a couple defines in the code to be able to compile on both Beos and Haiku.
Axel implied it wasn’t.
I quote (bebits comments)
“To El_Al: Tracker is using private Be API, it won’t run on Haiku unchanged. It has been ported to Haiku, though, and the Haiku version is up-to-date as well (so there is no need to replace it, anyway).”
Therefore he _implied_ the source was different.
Bryan Varner will be happy.
Does this mean Zeta stories will have the Haiku icon?
Zeta has its own category and icon. Nice to see Haiku moving on up nonetheless.
As if you’re not happy too, Mike? :-p
Looks like the “currently only available for x86” part was outdated about the same time this was posted on OSnews.
I was going to do it tonight… didn’t see the news early enough to do it last night.
It IS the same code base recompiled.
There are a couple defines in the code to be able to compile on both Beos and Haiku. This is impressive!
Is the rewrite (planned for years) still necessairy?
OSnews should posts about the icon-design-contest!