Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2576 mails)

[Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 12:33 -0500, Larry Stotler wrote:
> If I actually used any mono apps, maybe I wouldn't argue against it,
> but I have seen no apps that I have any interest in running.  

Not sure about the KDE side, but on GNOME we've got Banshee
(www.banshee-project.org), F-Spot (www.f-spot.org), Tomboy
(http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/ and more. These are extremely
professional and absolutely great apps, and they run on Mono.

> IMO,
> things like Beagle should NOT be installed by default and/or there
> should be some kind of checklist for them.  Like I have pointed out
> before, in my experience as a paid computer tech, 95% of my customers
> have no clue that they have a search tool installed.

I understand that but when it;s pointed out to users, many take the
opportunity to use them. IN addition, in openSUSE we've got a large
badge on the main menu that says "Search"... something even Vista
doesn't do right. In addition, even on my old laptop which just barely
meets the System Requirements on the openSUSE 11.1 box, Beagle didn't
make the computer noticeably slower I've seen people complain about
Beagle's performance, then they have a computer that is at the bare
minimum processor and memory to meet the Sys Req. for openSUSE. 
 
> Reusable frameworks are great IF you use a lot of programs that make
> use of them.  The only gtk app I run is firefox, and I wouldn't run it
> if Konquerer was better as a browser.  I don't run any mono programs.

As I said, for KDE Mono is a different story, as I do believe Beagle is
the only Mono app. But for GNOME at least, without Mono based apps I
couldn't listen to my music and podcasts or handle my photos nearly as
well as I can now.
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Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy - openSUSE Member
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