Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 10/14/2009 02:53 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 00:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >>> On 10/13/2009 07:14 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> >>>> Someone recently mentioned gnote as a substitute for tomboy. So I >>>> installed it. The two programs have essentially identical man pages. If >>>> you add gnote to your panel you get the same icon as tomboy. Executing >>>> both of then you get the same display. But looking at the program in >>>> the /usr/bin directory gnote is much larger. I looked at the script for >>>> tomboy and gnote is not mentioned. But tomboy appears throughout the >>>> binary gnote. >>>> >>>> So, what is the scoop about these two programs? >>>> >>> The size of either of these programs are fairly similar. The size for >>> Gnote installed on my system is 4.1 MB vs 4.8 MB for Tomboy. You should >>> also note that Tomboy pulls is a considerable amount of the Mono stack. >>> >> That is not the situation on my mazchine: >> [akonstam@localhost bin]$ ls -l gnote tomboy >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1904064 2009-07-14 17:45 gnote >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1143 2009-07-01 11:03 tomboy >> >> So somethiong is very different on my machine than your machine. Can you >> explain this? >> > > I don't see what is different. You are looking at ONE binary size. I am > looking at the RPM size (and installed size) on the whole. > > > Actually, if you look closer you'd see that of the above only one is a binary.... [root@f11 bin]# file gnote tomboy gnote: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped tomboy: a bash script text executable Talk about comparing apples to oranges.... But....I think the key thing Aaron is missing is simply... Gnote is a port of Tomboy to C++. -- Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers. -- Ray Simard Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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