On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 07:44 +0200, Rastislav Krupanský wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Wafaa [mailto:andrew.wafaa@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Wafaa Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:35 PM To: opensuse-gnome@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-gnome] Tomboy vs Gnote
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 22:10 +0200, Rastislav Krupanský wrote:
Hi.
I´m just wanna ask, why we have Tomboy when it consumes roughly three times what Gnote[1] requires in terms of memory[2] and it´s slower than Gnote? What about start thinking about replacing Tomboy by Gnote?
[1] http://live.gnome.org/Gnote [2] http://trmanco.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/gnote.png
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I for one see no reason to replace something that works brilliantly. Tomboy is very well featured and is under constant improvement. If you feel it is badly performing then please file a bug about it.
I'm kind of getting a bit fed up with this constant "replace existing mono app with non-mono". I'll be completely honest here, I LOVE all the mono apps out there, I have had absolutely no problems with any of them, and the devs are very approachable and helpful.
Rather than look at replacing something that still leads the pack with something less featured, let's try and improve it. File bugs, test releases etc.
Lacking some features is a true. So i´m just wondering so why Fedora replaced Tomboy by Gnote? [1]
[1] http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-desktop/2009-04/msg00006.html
That's an easy one to answer: Fedora are very much against Mono due to patent fears. They use Shotwell instead of f-spot too for the same reason. They have spent a lot of time & effort in re-writing apps that already exist.
Ratislav, sorry if this seems aggressive but in all honesty what's the point?
Don´t worry, we´re just discussing :-)
Phew I'm glad it didn't come across the wrong way ;-)
Something as trivial and fixable as memory consumption is by no means a reason to replace.
I´m not sure whether memory consumption is a bug and it makes sense to file a bug against memory consumption. Isn´t it caused by mono? Is any chance to reduce memory consumption? I´d really appreciate it on my old notebook (CPU 1,4 GHz Celeron and 768GB RAM). That´s the point in my case.
I would most certainly say it is a case for a bug. The developers may however disagree, but they will hopefully explain the limitations. There are cases when some apps aren't suitable and you may have to use others; but in general we try and provide as full a featured experience as possible. That often means using mono apps as they are the best for function/form/etc. Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin. PGP: 0x3A36312F openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org