"This article will briefly discuss the new features found within Gutsy Gibbon and hopefully give you a better idea of what to expect when the final version of Gutsy Gibbons is released in October. Some of the more notable new features are a Graphical Configuration tool for X, improvements in plug-in handling for Mozilla Firefox, revamped printing system with PDF printing by default, fast user switching, new desktop search (Tracker) application and the new AppArmor security framework."
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Member since:2007-03-09
Tomboy applet is NOT part of GNOME, Kerry is uses beagle to search
Ok, my mistake.
and if KDE has beagle backends does that mean it's part of KDE and you need mono?, think about it!
Only if it's part of the official KDE packages and not some random app from kde-look.org.
Member since:2007-03-09
Tomboy applet is NOT part of GNOME
Actually after some googling it seems that you're wrong and it is part of Gnome:
"Tomboy is a simple desktop note-taking application for Linux and other *nix operating systems. It's written in C# and runs on Mono. It has also just been accepted into GNOME 2.16, so Tomboy will be appearing on a lot of Linux users' desktops soon, if it's not there already."
http://www.linux.com/articles/56405
"April 9th 2007
Stable version 0.6.3 released! This will be the version included by GNOME 2.18.1. This release includes updated translations for the following languages:"
http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/
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2007-03-09
Not that superior. If it as, Ubuntu would obviously be using it. Gnome and KDE are just a bit different.
I believe Gnome was chosen because...
People have their preferences, often only because of getting used to certain things and ways of doing things.
Meaning the developers preferred Gnome over KDE. I don't believe there was much of a research or testing over this in the beginning.
By the way, have you considered that part of the Ubuntu popularity may have something to do with Gnome too?
I believe the main reasons were the concept (one live cd, with carefully chosen apps), ease of install, good docs and forums and of course successful marketing.
Mono has nothing to do with Gnome (except that some Mono developers are, or have been, also Gnome developers). Mono can be used in many sorts environments. I don't see Gnome embracing Mono in any particular way. Gnome seems to be rather "agnostic" in that matter,
Ok, maybe they're not "embracing" it but they're certainly using it for Tomboy which is part of Gnome.
I don't like this simply because of MONO's controversial connection to Microsoft.
They're using Python too but I don't have anything against python (in principle) except well.. that I don't like the idea of using high level languages in core OS componets, mainly because their lesser performance when compared to C or C++. I like the fact that KDE is written only in C++ so the codebase stays clean and there is less libraries to depend on.