On 5/27/2010 at 12:29 PM, in message <AANLkTinhgX4OPqclcUgMlMVkNjJAEPAIRwN4YUG1bJvC@mail.gmail.com>, Anshul Jain <anshulajain@gmail.com> wrote: 2010/5/27 Andrew Wafaa <awafaa@opensuse.org>: 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.
Isn't there *some* element to this fear of a Mono patent trap, even after the Microsoft Community Promise? It was said by the Mono team that the Mono code will be broken up into encumbered (Winforms etc) and non-encumbered parts (C# etc). Does F-Spot, Tomboy or Banshee cover the encumbered parts?
Just discussing...
Disclaimer1: IANAL Disclaimer2: I dont represent my employer's view Even if you consider that on a hypothetical scenario, mono infringes on some microsoft patents, microsoft wont be bothered to sue either some innocent home user or the openSUSE project. Mono-Patents-violation should be of zero botheration for openSUSE imo. Personally I prefer 'vi ~/Desktop/todo' than anything else, but I have seen so many people using Tomboy and would any day prefer to ship a seriously-developed, enterprise-backed, project than a hobby, experimental project to see how to migrate C# app. to cpp. http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2009/07/27/680-why-i-did-write-gnote Sankar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org