[Gambas-user] Gambas has competition now

[Rob]

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 12:42, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> I think this is mainly because of the Mono applications: Beagle,
> TomBoy, and F-Spot. Even on Mandriva, if I install KDE, I manually
> remove Mono to prevent Beagle from indexing of my directories. :-)

Yes, I do this too, every time.  But I personally would argue that 
ffmpeg and lame are far more useful than any of beagle, tomboy, and 
f-spot, and the inclusion of the latter while using patents as an 
excuse to exclude the former seems incredibly short-sighted.

> Maybe people should do desktop applications with Gambas, and then
> maybe they will be integrated in the main desktop environments,
> like the above ones.

I agree, except that the kinds of desktop apps I tend to write outside 
of work usually involve one or more of the programs I mentioned that 
are relegated to the PLF in Mandriva ;-)

Rob