On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 17:55 -0500, Joe Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:44 PM, guido iodice <guido.iod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is very sad that mono folks are so committed with applications like > > f-spot or banshee, that have many good alternatives, or on mono-mac, > > mono-iOS, mono-android mono-whatyouwant, while Beagle died. > I can't really blame them. The GNOME landscape is (or at least, was) > *so hostile* toward Mono apps that I am surprised that Banshee or > F-Spot survived, frankly.
+1 F-Spot did recently get kicked-to-the-curb as default-photo-editor; and by a less powerful and less mature alternative. Both F-Spot and Banshee are absolutely top-notch applications. Don't forget Tomboy as well, which seems to be surviving. > A major reason why I gave up on Beagle and > the whole Linux desktop itself was due to this attitude. I guess the > developers of those apps are more thick skinned or resilient than I > was? I don't know. Time is also probably a factor, Beagle was AFAIK really the first desktop Mono application of any note. It was also ahead of its time as a concept [I recall no shortage of long rambling posts about how it was useless anyway]. > On the other hand, Mono on iOS, Android, etc. have all been warmly > welcomed by the communities that adopt them -- and they have much > larger user bases to boot. Why wouldn't they target them? They are proprietary platforms - so the zealots probably aren't as into 'defending' them. > > In the past I appreciate beaglefs that could be the first step of a > > next generation database-based filesystem. Now I use mono to cut my > > photos. > Thanks. It was a lot of fun to work on over the years. And very useful. _______________________________________________ dashboard-hackers mailing list dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
