Re: comparison of gnote to tomboy is confusing.

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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? 
> 
> Gnote is a port/fork of Tomboy from Mono to C++
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/331187/
> 
> Look up $yum info gnote tomboy for more details.
> 
> Rahul
> 
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