The eternal struggle to keep Canonical's Ubuntu within a single CD ISO has just made a casualty: the Tomboy, the GNOME excellent program to take notes and post them on the desktop, the distro is out until further notice .
The announcement came from the Ubuntu development mailing list, and is based on a simple reason: Tomboy still uses the libraries for the GNOME 2, with no equivalent in GNOME 3. So to keep the Tomboy would also be necessary to maintain several different packages, such as libgnome, libgnomeui, libbonobo, libbonoboui and libgnomecanvas. Libraries outdated and not very useful.
Goodbye Tomboy. You will always live in our hearts
And, as Canonical insists on keeping the default installation of Ubuntu on the average size of 700MB (as already noted here), was more interesting and Tomboy remove these extra packages to make room for other programs. There is the classic first application suffers low, and hardly the last.
Obviously, the user can download and install Tomboy manually if you want, after Ubuntu is already installed. Likewise, if developers Tomboy loose an update compatible with the GNOME libraries 3, the application most likely back to the default installation of Ubuntu. But at the moment, the manual installation seems to be the most likely solution.
Tomboy is a program that creates "sticky notes" on the desktop, and you can use to take notes, write reminders, and more. In addition to the Linux version, Tomboy is also available for Windows and Apple's OS X, and can be downloaded from the project.
