Comments on I' Been to Ubuntu: F-Spot is Gone: Now Can We Get Rid of Tomboy?

Thanks for the info.

2010-05-28T09:56:04.066+08:00

Thanks for the info.

Daeng Bo, Fedora 13 beta image was around that si...

2010-05-28T09:03:35.505+08:00

Daeng Bo,

Fedora 13 beta image was around that size but the general release has it back to CD size. Shotwell is indeed the default for Fedora 13 and has replaced Gthumb and F-Spot.

Sandy,

Debarishi Ray, primary developer of Gnote currently is already working on sync and has code written that he needs to clean up and commit. It will likely happen soon.

Shotwell is fairly young, and written in Vala. I a...

2010-05-21T03:30:02.369+08:00

Shotwell is fairly young, and written in Vala. I assume that it is not nearly as capable as F-Spot, which has years under its belt, but I also know that F-Spot has quite a few problems WRT speed. Vala is a popular GNOME language right now, so I assume that the Ubuntu devs thought that adding the required features to Shotwell would be easier than to F-spot.

Fedora went with GThumb and

It's my understanding (i haven't checked i...

2010-05-21T03:14:03.888+08:00

It's my understanding (i haven't checked it out yet) that Fedora removed both Tomboy and F-spot (I assume they wanted to remove the bloat from the Mono libraries) but the cd is still 680ish MBs...
And although i heard Gnote is a capable clone of tomboy, Shotwell isn't compring that welll...

Thanks Daeng, I appreciate your comments. Your po...

2010-05-15T01:46:21.229+08:00

Thanks Daeng, I appreciate your comments. Your post was very clearly (to me, at least) not anti-Mono or anti-Tomboy, so no worries on that regard.

If the math shows that Tomboy and its dependencies take up too much space on the Live CD (where 10 megabytes is a big deal), then obviously choices have to be made at that point. The latest packaging improvements to Mono make the

Sandy, Thanks for your thoughts. Like I said in t...

2010-05-15T01:34:43.443+08:00

Sandy,

Thanks for your thoughts. Like I said in the post, this is not an anti-Mono thing. It isn't an anti-Tomboy post, either, as I like and use Tomboy all the time and have since it became part of Ubuntu: I felt (and still feel) that the overhead of the Mono/GTK# runtime isn't worth Tomboy, as good as it may be. When F-Spot was in the default installation, you wouldn't

[I should probably disclose (for those that don...

2010-05-14T23:08:11.941+08:00

[I should probably disclose (for those that don't know) that I'm the maintainer of Tomboy, these are just my opinions, etc etc]

Daeng, it's easy to say that implementing something is "fairly straightforward". It is a common statement from users who wonder why their favorite feature doesn't exist yet. Whether or not it's true, the fact is that Gnote has

Sandy, I didn't mean to imply that Gnote was ...

2010-05-14T22:52:17.711+08:00

Sandy,

I didn't mean to imply that Gnote was complete, merely that continuing the port to the sync functions should be fairly straightforward. Sorry for being unclear.

Gnote is the default now for Fedora so you can be pretty sure adding some kind of sync support is a priority somewhere in the chain. And let's be honest -- if note sync isn't supported in 10.10 and

Daeng, Gnote is an incomplete line-for-line port...

2010-05-14T22:36:58.761+08:00

Daeng, Gnote is an *incomplete* line-for-line port of Tomboy from C# to C++. It does not support any kind of note synchronization.

LinuxCanuck -- This wasn't an anti-Mono post: ...

2010-05-14T22:02:05.104+08:00

LinuxCanuck --
This wasn't an anti-Mono post: I just thought that carrying the baggage of a whole runtime for one, small application seemed silly. You're probably right that Banshee will replace RB, though. It's been proposed every year and gets more support each time.

Gnote is a line-for-line port of Tomboy from C# to...

2010-05-14T21:59:11.373+08:00

Gnote is a line-for-line port of Tomboy from C# to C++, so I assume that Gnote could sync to U1 with little trouble. It doesn't matter, though. The report is that Tomboy is in for 10.10.

F-Spot was garbage anyway. It trashes EXIF data an...

2010-05-14T21:12:35.528+08:00

F-Spot was garbage anyway. It trashes EXIF data and has done so for years. It makes sense to do away with Mono, but don't hold your breath. Ubuntu seems to be joined at the hip to it. They have increased Mono content at a time when others are doing away with it. Look for more Mono not less from Ubuntu. I expect Banshee will replace Rhythmbox and gbrainy, Gnome Do and Docky to make it to the

Tomboy can be linked to Ubuntu One and that maybe ...

2010-05-14T13:56:42.865+08:00

Tomboy can be linked to Ubuntu One and that maybe a reason to keep it. Not sure if Gnote can be linked to Ubuntu One.

Comments on I' Been to Ubuntu: F-Spot is Gone: Now Can We Get Rid of Tomboy?

Thanks for the info.

Daeng Bo, Fedora 13 beta image was around that si...

Shotwell is fairly young, and written in Vala. I a...

It's my understanding (i haven't checked i...

Thanks Daeng, I appreciate your comments. Your po...

Sandy, Thanks for your thoughts. Like I said in t...

[I should probably disclose (for those that don...

Sandy, I didn't mean to imply that Gnote was ...

Daeng, Gnote is an *incomplete* line-for-line port...

LinuxCanuck -- This wasn't an anti-Mono post: ...

Gnote is a line-for-line port of Tomboy from C# to...

F-Spot was garbage anyway. It trashes EXIF data an...

Tomboy can be linked to Ubuntu One and that maybe ...

Daeng, Gnote is an incomplete line-for-line port...