Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:48:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > RH probably chose Gnome as it is easier to ship a fully working > out-the-box system with gnome. KDE has too many knobs Once they'd picked GNOME, for whatever reason, it made sense to stick with it or their support costs would rise with n

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:50:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. > > > > Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? > > and that was how many years ago? Inertia has no sell by date :( -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 27 March 2010 00:57:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. > > Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? No, that was the FSF's beef. As Volker sai

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. > > Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? and that was how many years ago? They also had no qu

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? -- Neil Bothwick A man needs a mistress - just to break the monogamy signature.asc Description: PGP s

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Damian
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: >> F-spot is written in mono. > > oh...what a hell of mistake i made. > > so, what do people do to manage photos on gnome? i do not like this mono one. I use geequie: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > >> yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i > >> want to keep my system compact. > > > > Then why are you using GN

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:07:08 +0800 Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > > > >> yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, > >> and i want to keep my system compact. > > > > Then why

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > >> yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i >> want to keep my system compact. > > Then why are you using GNOME? > > so, you mean kde is more compact than gn

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i > want to keep my system compact. Then why are you using GNOME? -- Neil Bothwick Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Paul Hartman > > wrote: > > DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system). > > yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i > want to keep my system compact. well, in that case yo

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system). > yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i want to keep my system compact. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 3/25/2010 11:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: >> hi, >> >> when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and >> all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes >> stable, and is used in real linux applicati

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/25/2010 11:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and > all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes > stable, and is used in real linux application? F-Spot is written in C#. C# is a CIL-only language, and r

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: > F-spot is written in mono. oh...what a hell of mistake i made. so, what do people do to manage photos on gnome? i do not like this mono one. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:31:52PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and > all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes > stable, and is used in real linux application? F-spot is written in mono. > -- > Best

[gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Xi Shen
hi, when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes stable, and is used in real linux application? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/