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Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register)

Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register)

Posted Jul 18, 2008 1:24 UTC (Fri) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)
In reply to: Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register) by bronson
Parent article: Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register)

> Sure it was.  We lost Dillo, qiv, xmms, and a few other excellent 
> utilities.

I'm still using all 3 of these! I'm not sure "lost" is the right word - in that they haven't
actually stopped working.



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Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register)

Posted Jul 18, 2008 7:48 UTC (Fri) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link]

> I'm not sure "lost" is the right word

I think Bronson means "lost" in the sense that development of those apps stopped once gtk+1's
did but even then, I'm not sure he's right. We "lost" xmms a long time before we moved from
gtk+1 to gtk+2.

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