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0 pointskoenigdavidmj13y ago0 comments

I thought that their removal from Ubuntu's default installation was simply that it's a large set of libraries that kept made it hard to keep the image under the size of a CD. And once Tomboy got ported to C++ (Gnote is almost exactly the same thing), it wasn't really necessary anymore.

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reidrac13y ago

Besides the "Mono wave" on Gnome seems gone. Now there are some guys pushing Vala, and it reminds me the time when Mono was the future of Gnome.

https://live.gnome.org/Vala

Several Gnome applications have been rewritten in Vala and, having contributed a patch to Déjà Dup, I find it's a language easy to hack coming from a C/Java/C# background.

I always found interesting that Mono could have been a good thing for Gnome and because of the Microsoft influence in the language (or .NET platform, I'm no expert) it never happened.

EDIT: ate a word

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