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

2010-03-27 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 said,

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 She's

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 no

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 n...@digimed.co.uk 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

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

2010-03-26 Thread Damian
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com 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

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

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 qualms

[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/

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

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 jaketodd...@gmail.com 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 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

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 kut...@kutulu.org 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

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 paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com 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

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 paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com 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.

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 Xi Shen
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk 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

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 davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk 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