Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

[Ethan Osten <senoki gmail com>]

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.