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Research Applications on HaikuArchives to see which one(s) still need Layout Management support

HaikuArchives has 300+ applications, many of which were written originally for BeOS. Haiku added Layout Management, which allows applications to look nicer at different sizes and when using other languages which may have longer or shorter text fields, etc.

For this task, you will be searching through these old applications to see which of them still need to be updated to support Layout Management. Check the open issues for the application and if you already see an open issue for it, make a note of the application name, then move on to another one. When you find one that doesn't have an open issue for it, try installing it using HaikuDepot and then try adjusting your system fonts and opening/closing the application at various sizes. Also try resizing the window(s) and see if there are any GUI issues such as cutoff text, etc. When you find one like this, open a new issue on its github page "Update to add support for Layout Management". Make a note of those as well. We are looking for 10 that need it, and for you to submit a list of those 10 newly opened issues, along with the list of ones you found that already had support, or already had an open issue for adding it. This can be just a plain .txt text file.

Here's an article discussing Layout Management to help you identify whether applications have it already or not. https://www.haiku-os.org/documents/dev/laying_it_all_out_part_1/ and https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/api/layout_intro.html

Task tags

  • layout management
  • haikudepot
  • research

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Task type

  • assessment Outreach / Research
  • done_all Quality Assurance
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2019