Re: Ubuntu and F-Spot

["Pasi Savolainen" <pasi savolainen iki fi>]

On 8/27/06, Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com> wrote:
> Found the below at Ubuntus page of suggestions for Google's SoC...
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2006
>
> ---
> Alternative Photo Management Application
>
> A complete picasa/f-spot like photo management application that doesn't
> use mono, but any of C, Ruby, Python or Perl as a programming language. It
> must have a photo retouching functionality similar to Picasa, like "I'm
> Feeling Lucky" where the picture can adjust automatically by it's
> lighting, color, hue, saturation. It must also be able to do photo effects
> similar to Picasa. It must also be able to use plugins, and pass
> parameters in command-line, and be able to use configurable and emblemable
> tags.
> ---
>
> Should I take this that ubuntu do not like Mono.... :)

I'd wager that whatever there is, it represents sentiments that were
in power before GNOME accepted Tomboy (mono application) and before
mono got into edgy/main:
~$ apt-cache policy mono
mono:
 Installed: (none)
 Candidate: 1.1.16.1-0ubuntu3
 Version table:
    1.1.16.1-0ubuntu3 0
       500 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages


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