[Andrew responded off list, and got it just right, so I'm forwarding.] On 4/21/06, Andrew Sobala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Graveley wrote: > > > > HELLO?! Check 1-2-3? > > > > The discussion *was* about Tomboy. An small app I wrote that people > > like, and which could benefit from adoption in GNOME. Thanks for > > throwing any chance for productive discussion out the window. > > Running the risk of putting words into other people's mouths, I don't > think that's what Luis meant. > > The question of "Should Tomboy be integrated into the GNOME Desktop" > spawned the question of "Should Mono applications be integrated into the > GNOME Desktop" - and that question shouldn't be answered just with > reference to Tomboy, it should be answered with awareness of the fact > that there is a huge wealth of mono applications out there, and we are > shooting ourselves in the foot if people whine about the implementation > language. But otherwise the conversation would go "Why are we adding a > dependency on Mono for a notes application" - and stop right there.
On 4/21/06, Andrew Sobala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Graveley wrote: > > > > HELLO?! Check 1-2-3? > > > > The discussion *was* about Tomboy. An small app I wrote that people > > like, and which could benefit from adoption in GNOME. Thanks for > > throwing any chance for productive discussion out the window. > > Running the risk of putting words into other people's mouths, I don't > think that's what Luis meant. > > The question of "Should Tomboy be integrated into the GNOME Desktop" > spawned the question of "Should Mono applications be integrated into the > GNOME Desktop" - and that question shouldn't be answered just with > reference to Tomboy, it should be answered with awareness of the fact > that there is a huge wealth of mono applications out there, and we are > shooting ourselves in the foot if people whine about the implementation > language. But otherwise the conversation would go "Why are we adding a > dependency on Mono for a notes application" - and stop right there. Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. Alex, if you read Murray's response, it was of the form 'no tomboy, because no C#, because doing c# just for tomboy is dumb'. That line of logic is what I was trying to stop. Luis _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
