comparison of gnote to tomboy is confusing.

[Rahul Sundaram]

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 at 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.

Rahul