View Full Version : tomboy vs. tomboy
Mateo
April 2nd, 2007, 03:47 AM
what's the difference between tomboy the program and tomboy the applet? they both do the exact same things. they both take up about the same amount of memory. What's the difference?
ubuntu27
April 2nd, 2007, 03:50 AM
There are two tomboys!!??
I didn't know that. :D
ComplexNumber
April 2nd, 2007, 03:52 AM
what's the difference between tomboy the program and tomboy the applet? they both do the exact same things. they both take up about the same amount of memory. What's the difference?
what makes you think there is a program and an applet?
Mateo
April 2nd, 2007, 04:47 AM
what makes you think there is a program and an applet?
go to terminal and type 'tomboy'. then right-click on your panel and go to Add to Panel.
Disstress
April 2nd, 2007, 04:49 AM
From what I understand you have to have the program installed in order to do anything with it, I am kind of lost. There is just a program, right?
ComplexNumber
April 2nd, 2007, 04:51 AM
go to terminal and type 'tomboy'. then right-click on your panel and go to Add to Panel.
just done that. what am i supposed to notice?
dbbolton
April 2nd, 2007, 04:56 AM
the panel "applet" is probably just a launcher/shortcut to the program.
Mateo
April 2nd, 2007, 05:00 AM
They are the same program, of course. Just 2 separate ways of running it. The applet is more of a frontend for Tomboy. For one, when you click on the applet is gives a blue background. This doesn't happen with the application. Also, of course, like all applets the tomboy applet has to be removed from the panel, you don't simply close it.
ComplexNumber
April 2nd, 2007, 05:00 AM
the panel "applet" is probably just a launcher/shortcut to the program.
that's correct. tomboy, the applet, IS the program. is the same with gnome system monitor and every other program.
Mateo
April 2nd, 2007, 05:03 AM
it is the same program, of course. it's a seperate way of running it. my question always was, why have 2 seperate ways to do the exact same thing?
23meg
April 2nd, 2007, 05:06 AM
For two separate use cases maybe? Not everyone using Tomboy is using gnome-panel, and thus can use panel applets.
Mateo
April 2nd, 2007, 05:07 AM
For two separate use cases maybe? Not everyone using Tomboy is using gnome-panel, and thus can use panel applets.
then why not just have the application?
the only advantage I see to the applet is that it can be placed anywhere, whereas the application runs in the Notification Area like all tray icons.
dbbolton
April 2nd, 2007, 05:11 AM
then why not just have the application?
the only advantage I see to the applet is that it can be placed anywhere, whereas the application runs in the Notification Area like all tray icons.
no one is going to make you use the "applet" if you don't want to.
23meg
April 2nd, 2007, 05:22 AM
then why not just have the application?
the only advantage I see to the applet is that it can be placed anywhere, whereas the application runs in the Notification Area like all tray icons.
Another possible advantage is that it can be used regardless of the existence of a notification area. Not everyone who uses a panel must have one; yet another use case variation.
I don't know much about Mono and Tomboy's structure, but the development cost of having both an independent [1] "application" and a panel applet is almost certainly negligible.
[1] Actually, there isn't one; the panel applet is the same /usr/lib/tomboy/Tomboy.exe that /usr/bin/tomboy points to, but called with a --panel-applet option.
macogw
April 2nd, 2007, 05:24 AM
Having Tomboy in the notification area is a new thing. That's in the newer version. The one that was on Edgy did not go there, so you had to either go through the GNOME menus or use the one on the laucher or alt+f2 it
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