comparison of gnote to tomboy is confusing.

[Ed Greshko]

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 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.
>
>
>   
Actually, if you look closer you'd see that of the above only one is a
binary....

[root at 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++.


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