Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

George Farris farrisg at cc.mala.bc.ca
Mon Jul 31 16:41:05 BST 2006


On Sun, 2006-30-07 at 17:05 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:52:12AM +0100, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> > On 7/31/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > >On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:38:02AM +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > >> I know but you missed my point. Why should an efficient app (Gthumb) be
> > >> replaced with one thats considerably more inefficient by default?
> > >
> > >I didn't notice gthumb being replaced.
> > 
> > Wasn't there like a policy of only having one programm of a type in
> > the default install to .. hmm .. not confuse the users?
> 
> Stick Notes isn't a proper application; it's a panel applet.  We have panel
> applets for all sorts of things, but also ship applications with similar
> functionality because they fill different needs.
> 
> > And now the plan is to have two sticky note applications and two photo
> > managers in the default install? Isn't that slightly confusing?
> 
> No authoritative decision has been taken regarding gthumb, and there isn't
> much point in speculating.  Any discussion will take place here.

Just a quick note that F-spot is nowhere as good as gthumb for printing
yet.  Gthumb will allow you to put 1,2,4 etc photos on a page which
f-spot currently doesn't do.





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