Future Haiku Features

​R1

• Media Kit encoding support

• Package management
  • Transfer installation/profile

Maybe R1

• Locale Kit integration and translation of all Haiku applications and preflets

• Session management

• Content based search

• WIFI support

• tty layer for serial ports

• Stack and Tile

​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

• Tool tips support/API in BView

• Keyboard shortcut and gestures management

• Keyboard and Mouse settings associated with hardware

• Multi-head support in app_server

• Concurrent user support in input and app_server

• Remote app_server

• New file system

• 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)