Fwd: Mono (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

[Vadim Peretokin]

You cannot "redo" in Tomboy, and if you do any formatting in it, it doesn't
carry over to Firefox (possibly other apps). So I'll be looking into getting
the sticky notes myself.

On Dec 14, 2007 2:22 AM, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Dec 14, 2007 8:57 AM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't know much about the technical details of Mono, but I can say
> this:
> > a) I don't care about "potential, maybe, vaguely insinuated" patent
> threats
> > - unless MS actually starts giving evidence, even discussing this is
> falling
> > prey to the FUD, just like they want us to.
> > b) F-Spot and Tomboy are great apps, and definitely helpful for a large
> > number of users.  Ignoring the issues of whether Mono is the "best" use
> of
> > space, treated for their own merits they are worthy of default
> inclusion.
> > c) Given our usual policy of shipping one application per task, dropping
> > gThumb and Sticky Notes from the default installation probably makes
> sense,
> > and perhaps this will help with some part of the space concerns.
> >
> > Additionally, Scribus and Inkscape are also pretty cool, but adding a Qt
> > dependency to a Gnome install makes no sense.  Now, if Kubuntu wants to
> look
> > at these that might be a decent idea, and could provide a unique
> attraction
> > to the Kubuntu member of the Ubuntu family.
> >
> > Finally, I would very much like to see two things included by default,
> and
> > hope that space can be found on the CD for them:
> > 1.) Seahorse - security is important, and the easier we make it, the
> more
> > people will actually bother to do it
> > 2.) Conduit - this seems like the way for things to go overall; the more
> > integration and synchronization the desktop can get with _everything_,
> the
> > better.
> >
>
> Conduit is still very premature, I just installed it last week, and it
> crashes a lot. (And it also add itself to autostart without asking me)
>
> > (I should also note at this point that if we're going to keep shipping
> > Rhythmbox by default, someone should really see to it that it gets
> two-way
> > transfer support for iPods included before the next release - a feature
> > included in Exaile and Banshee already, and which I've heard rumored is
> > available in CVS already.)
> >
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