Wish List

Shaka444 · 2026-07-08T21:58:17+00:00

Post your wishlist for apps and features you would like to have in Haiku. Include any insights on how to achieve it (if you have any ;-) .

Akakor

Power saving features

Akakor

A Haiku version of https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor

Akakor

Genio AI version, that fully integrates AI development, including device driver kit, templates, prompting help, etc.

phoudoin

dcbeckman
Few projects bringing Haiku API binding to Python are already available:

https://github.com/Be-Quiet-Home/Haithon
https://github.com/coolcoder613eb/Haiku-PyAPI (which is available via HaikuPorts : https://depot.haiku-os.org/#!/pkg/haiku_pyapi_python310)

dataflowcodes

phoudoin
Re: Python bindings
Mojo is an LLVM based replacement for Python but the breakage might not be too bad. I am proposing that bytecodes should focus on WebAssembly codegens or SPIR-V as my post in the "Should We Fork" thread indicates. Python may soon find itself outmoded once Mojo hits release versions.

Shaka444

Here's a simple one-

Move DriveSetup to Preferences where it belongs!
That's where it was in Be!

phoudoin

Shaka444 Preferences are supposed to change default settings.

One of BeOS paradigm was to have sensible default settings to avoid users to always and first change multiple settings.
Haiku took on that legacy.

DriveSetup app is not about settings, because there is no default "settings" about disk(s) partionning and file systems. Plus, such modifications are most of the time not reversible.

Hence why Haiku devs decided long time ago to no place DriveSetup app as a preflet app.
Hopefuly, it's also an app user should not have to use frequently.

Kevin

phoudoin DriveSetup app is not about settings, because there is no default "settings" about disk(s) partionning and file systems.

I agree, it is a tool - not a setting.

dcbeckman solid Haiku API libraries for Python would be awesome.

I wouldn't mind Vala support as well, it's similar to C# which is my day job.

Shaka444

phoudoin
Yes I understand that. But we don't have a "System" or "Utilities" category, so Preferences would be the place to put it.
It's not a daily Application ;-)

And Like I said, thats where Be put it.

clasqm

Kevin I agree, it is a tool - not a setting.

Then perhaps we can have a discussion about Deskbar organization?

I spend far too much time scrolling in Applications. DriveSetup could be in Applications | Utilities.

We already use subcategories in the HaikuDepot App. This can't be rocket science.

phoudoin

clasqm There was a thread on the forum about Deskbar improvement, in particular to add a quick input box to search and open an app / preflet by name.

clasqm

phoudoin I know. I was in it.

And it ended with no firm decisions made either way, just four or five suggestions how it could be overcomplicated. Action taken: none.

This was never about LLMs, phoudoin. That was just the straw that broke the camel's back. It is about a much longer pattern of a small number of people vetoing even the most reasonable suggestion.

phoudoin

clasqm

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/deskbar-redesign/18023/133

Where did you see a veto?

Ironically, the first to post "Deskbar is fine like it is" were @3dEyes and @X512, not the usual Haiku devs that you seems to blame everything on.

Re-read the thread, there is no veto.
It just dies because nobody continue to work on it, that's all.

Ironically, the veto

Shaka444

A Native Calendar app that can sync with my phone calendar without going thru google or apple to do it.

CalDAV from a local WebDAV server

dcbeckman

I am not sure if there is a way to change it currently, but deskbar is really small on modern screen resolution. I would like to make the text, icons, etc bigger as an option.

phoudoin

dcbeckman Deskbar icons size can already be tuned in Deskbar preferences. The font size follow also.

I use Haiku on a 4k screen, and my sight doesn't improve over age, so I use that myself.

clasqm

phoudoin
Yup, that's exactly how it works

Someone puts forward an idea. Something quite simple. A bit of work, of course, but it only needs to be done once.
the ruling clique doesn't come up with a flat "No". Instead they come forward with a number of very complicated alternatives.
Everybody tacitly agrees that the alternatives would really be a lot of work, and besides, that's not how Be did it. The original proposal is not mentioned again.
And nothing happens.
Nothing ever happens.

A clear "NO" would be preferable. The same idea will come up again in three years' time. And nothing will happen. It gets vetoed by being talked to death.

If you can honestly say that you've never observed this pattern, then please share your recipe for enjoying peace of mind. Meanwhile, I will be hanging out with these guys. I find their "just go out there and do it" attitude refreshing.

dcbeckman

Yeah, I definitely don't like the way the apps and folders are laid out in Haiku. Drive setup should absolutely be under preferences, or perhaps a new System folder. I would also vote making a lot of the old demos optional packages as I just see them as clutter. Can't get rid of the Teapot though.

dcbeckman

Since some brought up the Dark Mode thing again on the Haiku forum, a system-wide dark or light setting, with adjustable presets, so that user don't need to be GUI color experts in order to use it. Some people just don't want to mess around with color sliders, and that is ok.

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