On Jul 19, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Andy Tai wrote: > What is this? Some type of threat? > To date GNOME does not have Mono and GNOME is doing great. > The majority of users do not use Mono and do not want to depend on > Mono. If you have your way, more people will lose their way. Who > have heard any users today who refuse to switch to GNOME unless Mono > is adapted? (What do these people use today? KDE?) It's not necessarily an issue of the platform itself keeping people from switching; does the end user care about the platform at all?
What they /do/ care about are the applications written in Mono. Things like Beagle and F-Spot make Gnome much more attractive as a desktop to Windows and OS X users (not to mention new users!) than it is without them. > When Mono works comfortably on a machine with 32 MBytes of RAM, than > maybe it makes sense to talk about basing some parts of GNOME on Mono. 32 megabytes of RAM is the minimum to install a purely console-based installation of Debian sarge. I would like to see _any_ desktop framework meet this requirement anymore, be it Mono or C/GObject. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
