[haiku-development] Re: R1/a4 initial planning  On 01.03.2012
23:01, Julian Harnath wrote: [...] Why would you want to do
that? Maybe because it's a better textview which has spellcheck
and syntax using textviews gain spellcheck and syntax
highlighting. Just like it instantly everywhere.  Haiku being
open source, I fail to see the point - if the replacement is
better, it should be part of Haiku. Also, you can just drop in
new widgets to the libs folder, too, and all applications can
use it. That's no different than what MUI delivers, too, only
that libbe.so combines many widgets into one big library (no
harm done, it just improves application start time
considerably).   Not at all. You still need fixed and stable
interfaces to define the functionality, and that is the hard
part.  [...]  especially in places already.  Do not forget that
add-ons are costly as they considerably add to the startup time
of applications (think Photoshop or Eclipse). It's just not a
good idea to use them where they don't make sense.