GNOME and Mono
July 19, 2006I am not a developer, and I do not give a rat’s ass about ideological hippie crap when it comes to software.
So, now that we got that out of the way: GNOME and Mono. For 7 days now d-d-l has been going mental with a completely, utterly pointless discussion on whether or not to include Mono bindings in the vanilla GNOME package. Right-o.
Now, I am a user of GNOME and many Mono applications. GNOME always claims to cater to its users, right? Well then: GNOME developers, get a fcuking clue. I have no idea why on God’s sweet earth GNOME would not include Mono bindings by default. Let’s face it boys and girls: the current decent applications on GNOME are Mono-based. F-spot. Beagle. iFolder. Banshee.
Those are the applications that have turned GNOME from a rather bare, mediocre DE into something that is usable as a home desktop. Yet, you people are STILL debating whether or not to make it easy for developers using Mono?
Seriously, I don’t get you folk. Why don’t you guys just learn to stop being so hopelessly ideological about ones and zeroes, and stop being so compltely out of touch with your general user base and what it wants. Oh, and obviously, you guys need a leader.
It is laughable. At best.
Seriously, calling for a leader in the same post as advocating the inclusion of Mono is ridiculous.
If the leader decided against Mono, would you just accept that and shut up?
Comment by Rob — July 24, 2006 @ 2:22 pm
If the leader decided against Mono, would you just accept that and shut up?
Yes. I would find it a stupid choice, but I’d shut up indeed.
Comment by Administrator — July 24, 2006 @ 3:23 pm
Yes. I would find it a stupid choice, but I’d shut up indeed.
Great! Ruling is that stuff is not included as long as there is no consensus to include it. The leaders are the high profile developers discussing on d-d-l (just ignore the noise). That’s all, time to accept it.
Comment by Rob — July 24, 2006 @ 8:30 pm