“Gnote is a perfectly acceptable application which performs gracefully.”The pro-Mono crowd (some Novell and Microsoft employees included) would not be terribly happy about this because Tomboy is admittedly not as libre as Gnote. Jo Shields says that "[f]eatures CANNOT be ported back from Gnote - Gnote is GPLv3, and is only compatible with LGPL2 in one direction. I suspect this was 101% intentional."
Irrespective of whether it's intentional or not -- and apparently it's not even true -- Gnote grew tremendously fast (even its resistors are stunned by how much was achieved in less than a month) and it's pending addition to Debian and Ubuntu. For those who want GNOME to stay independent from Mono, Gnote [1-6] is a project to support by spreading the word and asking distribution packagers to include it (either installed by default or added to the repositories). ⬆
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[1] Project of the Day: GNote
[2] Tomboy is Afraid of Gnote, Its Mono-free Sibling
[3] Gnote Supports 6 More Languages, Does Not Support C#
[4] The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited
[5] Did Tomboy Learn from TomTom? Project Forked, Moves Away from Microsoft 'Standards'
[6] Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)
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Jose_X
2009-05-04 12:42:24
Jose_X
2009-05-04 11:15:31
Jose_X
2009-05-04 06:33:13
a
2009-05-04 02:23:20
r_a_trip
2009-05-05 13:13:37
Robert
2009-05-05 01:40:28