Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

[Pavel Rojtberg]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:27 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> A few years ago, most "average" people didn't own digital cameras, and
> certainly didn't do much photo manipulation on their computers.  Now
> most people own multi-mega-pixel digital cameras (even most mobile
> phones have them now), regularly download them onto computers and edit
> them.  That takes large amounts of RAM and disk space, simply because it
> takes a lot of RAM to hold a 1600x1200x24 image and modify it.
thats a good point to show our different POV.
you say that if someone has enough RAM to load a 2MP image (or lets say 
a modern 7MP image) he would not care if the program would use a bit 
more RAM since it wouldnt matter in this context.

I (and I suppose others too) say that the same program should use <= RAM 
on opening a 640x480 image than a 2year old program.
Since I think that users of old hardware have old periphery too, which 
is not capable of creating even 2MP images. (or they are just organizing 
pictures found on the web)

If you look at GNOME for instance the above is true. running GNOME 2.16 
on the hardware of the time when GNOME 2.2 was(with the same settings) 
out would consume less RAM and be thus more usable.
On recent PC you can have however all the eyecandy you want.

Pavel