Future Haiku Features

​R1

• Finish Media Kit encoding support (implementation in nodes based encoding is missing)

• Package management - PackageManagerIdeas
  • Transfer installation/profile

Maybe R1

• Locale Kit integration and translation of all Haiku applications and preflets ​Localkit progress

• Session management

• Content based search

• WIFI support - ​haiku wi-fi on OSDrawer.net

• tty layer for serial ports

• Stack and Tile

• New Debugger

​Unscheduled

• Hardware 3D acceleration
  • 3D accelerated app_server

• Tracker rewrite/refactoring
  • separate view mode code
  • add more view modes

• Multi-user support

• 64 bit support

• Keyboard shortcut and gestures management (Spicy Keys has been integrated as "Shortcuts", needs improvements.)

• Keyboard and Mouse settings associated with hardware

• Multi-head support in app_server

• Concurrent user support in input and app_server

• Remote app_server (has been implemented, but could use more user-friendly integration)

• New file system - FutureHaikuFileSystem

• More POSIX compatibility

• Replacing the C library

• Power management

• I/O APICs (implemented, but the interrupt mapping for PCI interrupts that has to be read through ACPI is yet missing)

• Finalize new driver architecture and rewrite all drivers

• IPv6 network support

• Floppy drive support

• Media Acceleration library (common routines to be used by media plugins that can be replaced by OpenCL, SSE or the like)

• API changes after dropping BeOS backwards compatibility - ​APIChangesOnCompatibilityDrop

• Calendar / Scheduling application (and server?)