Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

[Pavel Rojtberg]

Scott Dier wrote:
> Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
>> Ooh. I am not a RAM fetishist, so when my browser takes 200MB res I 
>> think it is OK (after all I have 30+ tabs open and haven't closed it in 
>> a few days). But 22MB for sticky notes?! OMFG!
> 
> 22MB is a small price to pay for a portable and searchable (by beagle) 
> wiki. :)
who cares about portability? we are putting together a linux 
distribution. besides mono is all but portable (doesnt run on *BSD)

and if you think about the fact that you can have a whole beagle like 
indexer (tracker, yes I know it can do more) in about 8MB and put in the 
remaining 14MB lets say rhythmbox (which is intended to be searcheable 
with tracker) 22MB seems a lot to me.

besides why should we waste RAM when everybody else tries to save it? 
Its not like tomboy or f-spot would be some absolutley must have killer 
apps. (does linux have those at all? or is it the philosophy/ freedom?)

how many complaints are there about gthumb and sticky notes? and is it 
worth giving up all out of the box functionality for lower end computers 
just to add some more for the high end users is a bad trade-off.

Pavel