Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

2009-06-24 Thread Dan Wentworth
On 24 Jun 2009, at 00:54, John Cooper wrote: Peter Washington wrote: Hi Folks, http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/67387.html Discuss. Get the link right first and express you own view for discussion! (I dislike this form of posting)

Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

2009-06-24 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Ralph Corderoy wrote: That matches what I've heard. Mono may exist but writing cross-platform GUIs with it without reverting to (the non-MS) Gtk+ or similar isn't practical given its level of support for Windows' APIs on Linux. So if folks are effectively writing Linux-only apps then

Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

2009-06-24 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
2009/6/24 John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net: Ralph Corderoy wrote: That matches what I've heard.  Mono may exist but writing cross-platform GUIs with it without reverting to (the non-MS) Gtk+ or similar isn't practical given its level of support for Windows' APIs on Linux.  So if

Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

2009-06-24 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Banshee is a buggy resource hog.(Compared to Rhythmbox). Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote: 2009/6/24 John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net: Ralph Corderoy wrote: That matches what I've heard. Mono may exist but writing cross-platform GUIs with it without reverting to (the non-MS)

Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

2009-06-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Andrew, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: GTK+ is available for Windows AFAIK. Yes, that's right. But I thought the overhead of wrapping it for CIL might be an obstacle. I've certainly run GTK apps on Windows (Dia, Gimp) which involves installing GTK libraries for Windows.  I'm wondering

Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

2009-06-24 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Simon O'Riordan wrote: Banshee is a buggy resource hog.(Compared to Rhythmbox). This is definitely a case of ymmv. I tested with a library of 18,000 tracks and found:- Banshee: 205MB Exaile 164MB RhythmBox 93MB Whenever I run Rhythmbox, it crashes after a while though! Evidently

Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

2009-06-24 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Interesting. I did take another look at Banshee a while back, but it suffered from database corruption. Ever look at Elisa from Fluendo Embedded? Very different interface, truly GUI. John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: Simon O'Riordan wrote: Banshee is a buggy resource hog.(Compared to Rhythmbox).

Re: [Dorset] Is Linux suffering from Mono ?

2009-06-23 Thread John Cooper
Peter Washington wrote: Hi Folks, http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/67387.html Discuss. Get the link right first and express you own view for discussion! (I dislike this form of posting) http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Is-Linux-Suffering-From-Mono-67387.html Mono is open source