Re: New system monitor extension
Il giorno dom, 22/05/2011 alle 15.35 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna ha scritto: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno sab, 21/05/2011 alle 14.17 +0200, Florian Mounier ha scritto: Hi ! I wrote a gnome shell extension displaying memory / swap / cpu usage in status bar. My code is far from perfect but I thought it might interest some of you. Code is available here: http://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet Any feedback is welcome. Best regards I'm afraid you're late. :) There is already a systemMonitor extension in gnome-shell-extension master, that shows CPU and memory using libgtop. Currently it adds an actor in the message tray; if you want to improve it to show a system status indicator, you should patch it and file a bug. Giovanni And libgtop is the way to go anyways. I personally would like to see system monitor in the overview if possible. I think that fits the design much better. System monitor and weather are all tasks so to speak. If you put it in the task bar you're breaking the design as that is where the system applets are. Monitoring your computer is not a system task IMHO. Frankly, I'm very protective what goes into that top bar now as I like keeping it minimalistic and distraction free. A quick hot key will satisfy my curiosity whether the system is running well or not. Well, the system monitor extensions (this, and the one in the repo) are not for checking what is failing, and where, just for rapidly looking if everything is running smoothly, while doing something different. In case you actually and explicitly want to check, there's a fantastic app for that. Giovanni signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
Re: New system monitor extension
seems like a very nice idea! i'd welcome a weather applet integrated with the clock. in fact, it could be part of the base system too. also (and this might just be me) right now when i open down the clock applet, half of dropdown bubble is empty, since i don't keep my events and calendar in evolution. it would be nice if there was a chance of choosing what to display there, or it could be flipped to show detailed weather info, instead of calendar events and tasks. system monitor on the other hand would be perfectly fine and coherent, if it was displayed as an icon in the top-right corner, where you could get a detailed dropdown view on clicking it. Just thinking out loud, but it'd be nice to see alternative approaches to showing these things - system info, weather - than just re-creating applets. Has anyone thought of writing an extension that adds these somewhere else, like to the overview somehow? Or for weather, to the clock? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
Re: New system monitor extension
Il giorno sab, 21/05/2011 alle 14.17 +0200, Florian Mounier ha scritto: Hi ! I wrote a gnome shell extension displaying memory / swap / cpu usage in status bar. My code is far from perfect but I thought it might interest some of you. Code is available here: http://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet Any feedback is welcome. Best regards I'm afraid you're late. :) There is already a systemMonitor extension in gnome-shell-extension master, that shows CPU and memory using libgtop. Currently it adds an actor in the message tray; if you want to improve it to show a system status indicator, you should patch it and file a bug. Giovanni signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
Re: New system monitor extension
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno sab, 21/05/2011 alle 14.17 +0200, Florian Mounier ha scritto: Hi ! I wrote a gnome shell extension displaying memory / swap / cpu usage in status bar. My code is far from perfect but I thought it might interest some of you. Code is available here: http://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet Any feedback is welcome. Best regards I'm afraid you're late. :) There is already a systemMonitor extension in gnome-shell-extension master, that shows CPU and memory using libgtop. Currently it adds an actor in the message tray; if you want to improve it to show a system status indicator, you should patch it and file a bug. Giovanni And libgtop is the way to go anyways. I personally would like to see system monitor in the overview if possible. I think that fits the design much better. System monitor and weather are all tasks so to speak. If you put it in the task bar you're breaking the design as that is where the system applets are. Monitoring your computer is not a system task IMHO. Frankly, I'm very protective what goes into that top bar now as I like keeping it minimalistic and distraction free. A quick hot key will satisfy my curiosity whether the system is running well or not. sri ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
New system monitor extension
Hi ! I wrote a gnome shell extension displaying memory / swap / cpu usage in status bar. My code is far from perfect but I thought it might interest some of you. Code is available here: http://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet Any feedback is welcome. Best regards -- Florian Mounier ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
Re: New system monitor extension
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 14:17 +0200, Florian Mounier wrote: Hi ! I wrote a gnome shell extension displaying memory / swap / cpu usage in status bar. My code is far from perfect but I thought it might interest some of you. Code is available here: http://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet Any feedback is welcome. Best regards Just thinking out loud, but it'd be nice to see alternative approaches to showing these things - system info, weather - than just re-creating applets. Has anyone thought of writing an extension that adds these somewhere else, like to the overview somehow? Or for weather, to the clock? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
Re: New system monitor extension
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 14:17 +0200, Florian Mounier wrote: Hi ! I wrote a gnome shell extension displaying memory / swap / cpu usage in status bar. My code is far from perfect but I thought it might interest some of you. Code is available here: http://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet Any feedback is welcome. Cool extension. Have you considered reading /proc/meminfo instead of calling 'free -m' and reading /proc/stat instead of calling 'cat /proc/stat'? It might be more efficient to use Gio to read these files directly instead of spawing commands. John ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
