On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@opensuse.org> wrote:
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.
And that is probably true, but I have never used any of them, and have no plans to use any of them either.
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.
What do you consider to be bare minimum? I have a Thinkpad with a P3/700 and 384MB(Max). My powerbook G3 has a G3/266 and 320MB RAM, It really wasn't able to run 11.0 with a GUI. When you get right down to it, it's a non-essential program that the majority of user MAY feel they can make use of, but that MOST have no idea that it's even there. And, so long as Beagle creates problems for even 10% of the usersif that's the case), then it's a problem that needs to be addressed.
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.
Try MPlayer. It will run anything. I was even able to play my friend's iTunes music over his network from his windows system. I would remove Xine and Kaffine if they weren't so many firggin dependencies for them. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org