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Is Tomboy the only application that uses Mono?[On a default installation] That seems a bit extreme to include the Mono framework just for a notepad.
by dimarco 17y ago
Is Tomboy the only application that uses Mono?[On a default installation]
That seems a bit extreme to include the Mono framework just for a notepad.
- paulgb 17y agoThe F-Spot photo manager also uses Mono. It's a default on Ubuntu, not sure about Debian.
- profquail 17y agoBanshee (http://banshee-project.org/ http://banshee-project.org/) is another large project. Also, you can check out the 'Success Stories' page at the Mono Project's website: http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono
- ubernostrum 17y agoOf course, there's a chicken/egg thing here. Might as well say "it seems a bit extreme to include Python" just because the occasional app is written with PyGTK, for example. There are plenty of folks writing applications in C# using the GTK bindings, which in turn need Mono. Tomboy is just one that's become popular enough that people want it to ship as part of Debian's distribution of GNOME (not the only one; IIRC there are three apps in there now which need Mono). So sooner or later somebody's gotta ship it by default to support an application, and then folks who don't have religious attachments to avoiding Mono will think it's no more unusual than any other shared dependency of commonly-used applications.