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Banshee UI to be in Moonlight
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| Yes. That’s right. According to the GCDS 2009 presentation notes on the
| Banshee site, we learn lots of nice stuff about Banshee:
|
| “It’s not just an app, it’s a platform”.
|
| * Long term goal is to write the UI in Moonlight
| o Declarative UI, canvas, scene graph, and toolkit
| o Moonlight is an Open Source implementation of Microsoft’s
| Silverlight technology … and it is awesome
|
| “Banshee is going to do photos”
|
| “We are re-basing the F-Spot core on top of Banshee”
|
| And it ends with GNOME, Mono and Banshee logos.
|
| Moonlight is of course, absolutely toxic unless you get it directly from
| Novell, as the so-called “covenant” specifically prohibits non-Novell
| distributions from distributing Moonlight
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/14/banshee-ui-to-be-in-moonlight/
Banshee not good enough; Gomer Pyle reacts
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| It seems we are settling on the “best-of-breed” as the ultimate
| justification. This is a good stop if you are on Team Mono, because you can
| call any application the “best-of-breed” so long as you are the one that gets
| to decide what factors make it the “best-of-breed”.
|
| I always chuckle around #4; Team Mono is forever chanting “pragmatism” and
| how “the user doesn’t care about freedom or principles”. Yet it’s quite
| clear that the overwhelming majority of users do not want Banshee. So, do the
| users matter or not? It seems to me that how much they matter is in direct
| proportion to how much they support you on any specific issue.
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/14/banshee-not-good-enough-gomer-pyle-reacts/
Recent:
Disinformation Disinfected, pt. 3: Banshee in Ubuntu
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| Here, let’s take a look at one of the main things that get’s me going about
| mono-supporters.
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| There is a strong push to get Banshee in as the default media player in
| Ubuntu. Here’s my take on that.
|
| The first lie: Banshee saves space.
|
| As near as I can tell, the whole thing really got going from an
| apebox.org “rant” back around April. In this [cough]fact-filled[/cough] post,
| the assertion is made that 6.1 MiB will be saved on the LiveCD by
| replacing “bloated C-based” Rhythmbox with Banshee.
|
| This, like most pro-mono propaganda is about 25% truth/ 75% lie. You see, it
| doesn’t count the accompanying documentation of Rhythmbox. The apebox.org
| ranter casually cedes the point on page 4 or so of this thread, pretending
| all the while like space was “never really my main argument.”
|
| [...]
|
| It’s my opinion that despite protestations of “oh, I’m just looking out for
| the best application”, it is clear the initial thrust of getting Banshee into
| Ubuntu as the default media player was based on the pro-mono agenda of simply
| pushing mono apps.
|
| Let me be clear on my position: if people want to use mono apps, well then,
| drop it in the repos and drive on Power Ranger. It is the constant “shove it
| down their throats” of the pro-mono brigade which offends me the most.
|
| Mindshare is very important; it is why all that shovelware pays to have their
| crappy applications on the WinXP OEM desktop. It is a major “win” for mono to
| be included by default, because then mono-supporters can simply point to some
| existing application and say “well, that mono app is already in, so why not
| this one?”
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http://meandubuntu.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/disinformation-disinfected-pt-3-banshee-in-ubuntu/
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